Stevedoring giant Qube has failed to overturn a ruling that it should have slashed the minimum number of hours salaried dockworkers needed to work in a year after withholding their pay over 11 weeks of protected industrial action.
A distinctly elementary counting error has led to a FWC full bench quashing the rejection of a non-union university deal and returning it to the member for reconsideration.
In a decision exploring what constitutes a disciplinary investigation, a FWC full bench has quashed a finding that a public transport agency must pay a group of train drivers blocked from attending work after failing to comply with its COVID-19 vaccination policy.
The CPSU will seek a 20% pay rise over three years plus potential cost of living adjustments and the scrapping of any cap on how many days federal public servants can choose to work from home as part of a service-wide log of claims it will hand to the APSC at the end of the month.
The FWC has ordered resources giant Santos to merge two proposed agreements into one, finding that parallel processes and duplication of claims would otherwise condemn parties to a "less efficient" bargaining process.
Apple and the SDA have told the FWC a RAFFWU bid to axe the tech giant's retail deal is premature and a distraction from bargaining, while the unregistered union maintains it should be expedited as workers are on "inferior conditions".
Australian workplace laws have a "legislative preference" for registered unions to act as a "specific vehicle" for workers seeking to enforce their rights under industrial instruments, the Federal Court has heard.
A judge irked by a multinational company's attempt to cast its underpaying subsidiary's award breaches as the court's "alternate interpretation" has imposed a near-maximum fine.
Some Australian universities have engaged in "passive resistance" when questioned over employee underpayments and record-keeping, according to Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker.
