After a 17-day strike and continued picketing on Saturday despite FWC orders, workers at four Woolworths warehouses have voted up a revised offer, with pay rises of 10.5% to 12% over three years, and safeguards to ensure the company does not use a work-speed measurement tool to automatically discipline workers.
Union density has risen for the first time in 13 years and membership has increased by 160,000 in the past two years, while working from home appears to have stabilised at a bit more than a third of employees, new ABS data reveals.
Gig platforms must use "human representatives" rather than AI when assessing a regulated worker's response to threatened deactivation, under a much-anticipated new code published by the Albanese Government last week.
The FWC has refused to approve a Subway franchisee's proposed deal designed to replace a zombie agreement, finding it not genuinely agreed because the employer failed to adequately explain which allowances would be absorbed into the rate of pay, and that penalty and minimum rates would freeze for the life of the agreement.
The FWC has ordered the UWU to stop "unlawful picketing" that is blocking access to four distribution centres that supply Woolworths, finding it has undermined the union's good faith bargaining obligations.
The FWC has declined to halt a ballot for a proposed agreement, finding a waste management company did not breach good faith bargaining obligations by allegedly "blindsiding" the TWU when it unilaterally put the deal to its workforce.
Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act amendments that abolished "work-arounds" allowing employers to dodge genuine bargaining have been instrumental in workers winning fair wage increases, the MEU has told the review of the legislation.
The Federal Court has criticised Shine Lawyers' "excessive" legal fees and "Rolls Royce" registration process while approving a settlement in a WA stolen wages class action set to leave group members with as little as $10,000 each.
The ETU is pursuing the MBA's NSW branch over what the union claims were misrepresentations about potential huge penalties against anyone involved in a rally protesting the federal government's decision to put the CFMEU's construction division into administration.
An engineer who lost a close relative in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict was clearly offended when a manager directed him to move his desk into a project "war room", but his refusal still provided a valid reason for his dismissal, the FWC has found.
