The FWC has refused to approve a new deal for hamburger chain Grill'd despite 94% of employees voting it up, after finding some of its young workforce might not have understood they would be only 77 cents a week better off than under the award.
In its first decision on whether to give "removed" CFMEU construction division officials the chance to pursue jobs at other unions, the FWC has cleared former Queensland branch assistant leader Kane Lowth to take up a part-time role with the ETU but stopped short of allowing him to hold office or represent it in bargaining.
In response to a grieving mother's petition, Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt has committed to legislating to prevent employers from cancelling employer-paid parental leave for parents dealing with stillbirth or early infant death.
The Ai Group has accused Labor of disregarding its re-empowered IR umpire by taking out of its hands decisions to remove or reduce award penalty rates.
Secure Jobs amendments have helped scuttle a bid by a labour hire arm of CIMIC Group subsidiary UGL for approval of a deal voted on entirely by casuals despite also covering full-time and part-time employees, with the FWC also finding an IR manager's evidence unpersuasive and rejecting claims it was a "rollover" agreement.
FWC sets deadline for new government's wage submission; ILO journal now available for free; and Indigenous-led study strives to create "culturally inclusive workplaces".
In the wake of the wave of corruption allegations in the construction sector, the Victorian Government has introduced a new bill that aims to empower its wage inspectorate to receive complaints about the building industry.
The Federal Court has refused to knock out an ETU claim that an employer fraudulently withheld information from the FWC when seeking approval for a new deal, allegedly concealing that the bulk of those voting had been engaged solely to take part in the ballot.
A FWC full bench has emphatically quashed a deputy president's decision to bin a worker's unfair dismissal application with five hours' notice just two days before Christmas, finding he misapplied the Commission's powers and "misapprehended" the facts.
