A senior FWC member has found a CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch enterprise agreement team manager, "removed" from her office of divisional delegate, is a fit and proper person to hold office in or be employed by another union and to serve as a bargaining representative.
The FWC has ordered a pharmaceutical company back to negotiations with the UWU for a first enterprise agreement to cover operational employees in non-managerial roles at its Brisbane manufacturing facility, after finding it breached good faith bargaining by offering employees inducements to vote against enterprise talks.
The FWC has extended time for a truck driver to lodge a late unfair dismissal application after finding a newly-engaged TWU member service worker learning on the job lost track of it, while holding responsible the union officials who supervised him.
A full Federal Court has today clarified the meaning of "regulated employees" and quashed the FWC same-job, same-pay orders for Skilled Workforce on-hire employees at the Bengalla and BHP Mt Arthur coal mines, in a ruling that the MEU says might open new loopholes.
A full Federal Court has today upheld a landmark FWC full bench decision granting same-job, same-pay orders once heralded as a "nail in the coffin" for BHP's in-house labour hire model.
Qantas ground-handling employees who had their jobs unlawfully outsourced will receive an initial payment of $3,333 each and a further proportional amount, on top of compensation, Federal Court judge Michael Lee ordered this week.
Shiftworkers at Transport for NSW's 24/7 Transport Management Centre will enjoy a 350% pay rate on public holidays after a tribunal accepted the RTBU's interpretation of the governing award.
Josh Cullinan has stepped-down as RAFFWU secretary and has shifted into a new strategic litigation role, replaced by a former delegate turned industrial officer, who led the Better Read than Dead bargaining campaign, and is taking up his position alongside a new president and vice-president.
The FWC has voiced concerns over an employer's questioning of meatworkers who signed a petition in support of bargaining and its claims that the AMIEU "coerced" them to do so when they did not understand what it meant.
The Federal Court has dismissed an adverse action claim by the former Victorian manager for listed software company Technology One, in which he initially won a now overturned $5 million payout, and sought nearly $55 million on retrial.
