The FWC has recommended a Perth man working on the Ichthys LNG project in Darwin be paid a living-away-from-home allowance despite renting locally when he was employed.
Hundreds of enterprise agreements could be invalid due to an incorrect website being given in the notices of employee representational rights (NERR), the Federal Court has heard.
The IEU's Queensland branch says the state's top Catholic school teachers would earn more than $100,000 annually under a proposed deal negotiated with the help of the FWC's New Approaches program.
The Fair Work Commission has issued an interim order to stop an unlawful overtime ban at Victoria's Loy Yang power station and brown coal mine, after a rare weekend hearing.
A court has ordered a 7-Eleven franchisee to pay a $150,000 penalty for deliberately underpaying employees and using a "reverse calculation" regime to cover its tracks.
The crisis within Victoria's Country Fire Authority has deepened, with its chief fire officer joining the exodus from its management ranks, saying the organisation's proposed agreement has "compromised" his role.
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.
Cleaning contractor Sodexo has been unable to escape paying severance to some workers it transferred to a new employer, after the FWC found it failed to find them acceptable alternative work and criticised "misleading traps" that rendered "meaningless" its national HR manager's "guarantee" their entitlements would be protected.
Patrick Stevedores is asking the Fair Work Commission to end its year-long bargaining deadlock with the MUA at its four major container terminals, arguing the union has been stalling since mid-April on the company's "final offer".
