The FWC's annual wage review expert panel will hand down its 2024-25 ruling on Tuesday morning, after the newly-returned Albanese Government urged a real increase in the minimum wage and award rates, the ACTU sought a 4.5% rise and ACCI and AIG no more than 2.5% and 2.6% respectively.
A spurned TWU delegate found to have aired false bullying allegations against a co-delegate during a meeting at which he referred to him as "kid" and told him to put his "b-lls on the line" by holding a vote has lost his unfair dismissal case, despite his employer's procedural failings.
The Federal Government's just transition body is consulting on developing a jobs plan for workers who will be displaced when Australia's largest power station closes in 2027, but an academic says two years is "nowhere near enough time" to establish a proper transition program.
Liberal MP Tim Wilson has been installed as the new shadow workplace relations minister, on the same day the AEC begins a partial recount of his narrow election victory.
In a significant decision on the ambit of intractable bargaining determinations, a FWC full bench has found it has the power to require employers to backpay former workers.
A FWC presidential member has lauded the Secure Jobs' compulsory post-PABO conferences that enable the Commission to "jumpstart" and accelerate bargaining, while at the same time reducing the incentive for unions to take industrial action.
A Logie-winning TV producer cannot proceed with an anti-bullying claim because the organisation he volunteered for "disenrolled" him after "s-xist and vitriolic" comments were posted in a Facebook group he administered.
The Western Mine Workers Association is taking its first step towards forcing BHP to the bargaining table for its Pilbara port operations, as it works to bolster union power in the iron ore supply chain.
Burger chain Grill'd has resumed bargaining for a new national deal as the SDA continues to seek termination of its existing agreement and celebrates the axing of a franchisee's 2014 deal.
The FWC has refused to order the UWU to stop picketing that has allegedly blocked access to a major baking supplier's manufacturing facility, finding that it had not impeded bargaining and that the employer produced no evidence of its economic impact.
