The chair of Vision Super, former union leader Brian Parkinson, has stood aside on full pay while the industry fund seeks more information on governance arrangements when he ran a Victorian branch of the ASU.
In a reply submission ahead of an FWC full bench hearing in Sydney tomorrow, United Voice and the AEU have hit out at employers' objections to the use of a 2005 work value case to establish metalworkers as an appropriate comparator in their equal pay claim for early childhood workers.
The NUW has teamed with a law firm to run what is billed as an Australian-first class action where the union acts as the lead litigant with support from litigation funders.
The meatworkers' union has released an explosive "black market labour investigation" that accuses a meat processing company, a regional local government authority and labour suppliers of working together to exploit temporary migrants on working holiday visas rather than employ locals.
The Greens have called on Labor and the Coalition to support legislation the party will introduce next week that would add 10 days of paid family and domestic violence leave to the National Employment Standards.
The Federal Circuit Court has rejected the adverse action claim of an obese security officer who accused his employer of unfairly targeting him, transferring him to a position he physically could not perform in another city and then sacking him because he challenged a proposed enterprise agreement.
An FWC full bench has dismissed aviation services company Aerocare's appeal against the tribunal's rejection of its proposed enterprise agreement, reaffirming that the company's "abrupt" removal of casual employees from its coverage meant the employee group was not fairly chosen for the purpose of s186(3) of the Fair Work Act.
The ETU has declared a major payday for more than 4000 Queensland apprentices it claims are owed $70 million in underpayments after a full Federal Court today held that an old State award that continued to dictate their pay was superseded three years ago.
The FWC has reinstated a public bus driver dismissed after a road rage incident in which a vehicle was damaged and punches thrown, the commissioner observing that while the employee-employer relationship was "bruised", it was not beyond repair.
