The FWC has rejected employers' claims that the CFMMEU only made "superficial" changes to its logs of claims after the tribunal found it had been pattern bargaining against two mobile crane companies, in further reasons for approving a protected action ballot.
Class action law firm Adero says it plans to ask the Federal Court to make "common fund orders" in its other major IR cases, after achieving a significant breakthrough in winning one for a multi-million-dollar face-off with Airservices Australia on behalf of senior public servants.
An industrial umpire has rejected a work value claim brought by cardiology machine recordists, confirming that extra duties and requirements to keep up with technological change and developments within a profession do not necessarily increase work value.
The chair of an influential parliamentary economics committee has ignored Reserve Bank caution about the immediate prospects for faster wage growth, declaring the most recent data indicates wages have "turned the corner".
A lawyer representing five labour hire fruit pickers who withdrew an underpayments test case after winning a $150,000 settlement says he would welcome a "global settlement" for other claimants, while the employer accuses the NUW of funding the litigation in an effort to extend its patch.
The FWC has rejected arguments that the CFMEU engaged in pattern bargaining during negotiations over agreements with two crane operators, clearing the path for indefinite strikes to begin early this morning.
Labor when it came to power in the 1980s sought to address the "real wage overhang" the economy faced, but now it has to correct a "real wage underhang", the federal shadow productivity minister told a conference last week.
A security guard has failed to convince the FWC that he was unfairly dismissed for unauthorised possession of a baton, which he claimed he intended to hand in to police.
