The SDA has won same-job, same-pay orders that will lift pay by $8 to $12 an hour for close to 200 labour hire workers placed at a Queensland Kmart warehouse, while it has also, in league with the UWU, secured similar orders that will raise wages for on-hire workers at Metcash by up to $12,600 a year.
More than 1000 nurses and midwives from 17 NSW-based Ramsay Health Care private hospitals are stopping work today and rallying outside the healthcare giant's annual general meeting in Sydney to demand a 20% pay rise over three years.
A presidential member placed too much emphasis on two workers' failure to chase up their unfair dismissal applications, a FWC full bench has ruled, finding the representative's miscalculation of the due date responsible for the whole delay.
Adero Law says it is about to pursue the UWU over multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment, adverse action and political discrimination involving at least 20 current and former employees, while the union has rejected these claims and others in a separate case targeting WA branch secretary Carolyn Smith.
Deputy PM Richard Marles' chief of staff today called for changes to practices used by the new Parliamentary Workplace Support Service, as she launched an adverse action claim against him and the PM's chief of staff over alleged bullying and victimisation within her workplace.
The FWC's workplace s-xual harassment and s-x-based harassment claims regime is significantly faster than that of the AHRC, but the latter's "trauma-informed" processes and expertise provide better support for workers' emotional wellbeing, according to a new paper.
A FWC full bench has refused to extend time for a HR business partner seeking to appeal her unfair dismissal decision, finding she had failed to demonstrate any legal errors and instead merely showed "a preference for a different result".
FWC reserves on freezing CFMEU official's permit; Multi-party deal in two weeks after rail breakthrough: Union; Asmar seeking today to stay GM case; IRC urges parties to trial relief regime, after halting strike; and FWC finalises review of floor rates in modern awards.
The FWC has ruled an employer's communication with a worker could have been better, but its conduct amounted to reasonable management action carried out in a reasonable manner, rather than bullying that would warrant an order to stop it.
Virgin has used its bid for ACCC approval of an alliance with Qatar Airways to take a swipe at its main rival's "history of outsourcing Australian jobs overseas", while rejecting the Flying Kangaroo's claims it will have no incentive to use local crew if it can "effectively bypass" the nation's IR laws.
