The FWC has today suppressed the names of a group of Programmed Skilled Workforce Limited labour hire workers who are seeking anti-bullying orders against picketers at Carlton & United's Abbotsford brewery in Melbourne.
A contractor "knowingly involved" in underpaying vulnerable supermarket trolley collectors and a subcontractor who "deliberately" produced false payment records and underpaid employees have been fined more than $90,000 by the Federal Court.
Domino's Pizza says it intends to introduce penalty rates in its next agreement and that a Deutsche Bank report predicting the change could reduce profits by 24% does not factor in productivity measures implemented since the previous deal.
The FWC has suspended the entry permit of a CFMEU official who behaved in an "aggressive and threatening manner" when he told a project manager at a construction site he wanted to "smash" someone.
The FWC has ordered an employer that ran an "absurd" Monty Pythonesque defence to pay almost $90,000 to cover the legal costs of a teacher it sacked for "disgraceful, improper or unbecoming" conduct after she aired grievances at a school meeting.
A newly-approved three-year enterprise deal for National Basketball League players lifts minimum salaries from $37,000 under a nominally-expired 2013 agreement to $40,000 and then to $45,000.
The SA branch of the Independent Education Union has lodged an application for bargaining orders against Catholic school employers after a stoush over a union update to members prompted them to withdraw from negotiations for a new agreement covering about 6000 teachers and support workers in 193 schools.
The Fair Work Ombudsman is pursuing the NUW for losses incurred by Woolworths as a result of alleged unlawful industrial action last year at two of the retailer's distribution centres in Melbourne.
