Woolworths claims it has "little prospect" of negotiating a new supermarkets enterprise agreement in the wake of the termination of the deal for rival Coles, arguing the FWC's approach to rosters and other developments have rendered the BOOT practically "unworkable".
The Minerals Council has entered the IR debate with a call to outlaw industrial action over labour hire and contracting-out, sideline unions and make it more difficult to enter workplaces and establish unlawful adverse action.
The Department of Employment has told a Senate inquiry that almost two-thirds of large fast food, retail, hospitality and pharmacy deals pay less than the award for Sunday work.
The FWC has approved an Australia Post deal incorporating a 6%-over-three-years pay rise for about 29,500 employees plus an annual 1% bonus if the company realises profit and delivery targets, after it was overwhelmingly endorsed in every state and territory except Victoria.
New data shows the Fair Work Commission's "triage" process for assessing whether enterprise agreements pass the Better Off Overall Test is resulting in closer scrutiny of workplace deals.
The FWC's 3.3% national minimum wage rise is set to contribute 0.5 percentage points to the aggregate Wage Price Index for the September quarter, in what will be a far larger contribution than in previous years.
The union bid to overturn the cuts to penalty rates in the retail and hospitality industries has been set down for a three-day hearing of a full Federal Court in Melbourne next month.
Two employer groups have flagged that they will argue that the CFMEU's merger with two other unions cannot proceed because the former's construction division has a large amount of outstanding legal action against it.
After a national employer body suggested its industry's "blokey" culture means workers are unlikely to admit they are domestic violence victims, "let alone [seek] FDV leave under an award", the FWC yesterday set a September 1 deadline for submissions on whether modern awards should provide unpaid leave, ahead of hearings in October.
A prison gardener ordained as a Pentecostal minister who was disciplined for quoting bible passages about the sinfulness of homosexuality to inmates has failed to overturn a UK Employment Tribunal finding that his employer's actions did not constitute religious discrimination.
