The CPSU will ask members at the Department of Agriculture to endorse industrial action including more stringent screening of passengers and cargo at airports and bans on tasks associated with food exports and imports, under a protected ballot application to be lodged today.
A senior member of the Fair Work Commission has knocked back an enterprise agreement containing a voluntary additional hours provision lodged by a labour hire company with a workforce of casuals on working holiday visas.
The federal public sector's biggest department has made its workforce a new sub-inflation wages offer of 3.5% over three years, with a further 0.9% payable if executive employee numbers remain below a specified ratio.
DHS and Veterans' Affairs employees will next week ramp up protected industrial action by taking common lunch breaks and not answering internal emails in protest at the Government’s ongoing refusal to soften its bargaining position.
The Federal Court has upheld the quashing of a controversial meat industry enterprise agreement, despite its view that a FWC full bench might have made mistakes in overturning a single member's decision to approve it.
The AiG says that the Abbott Government should amend the Fair Work Act to prevent unions from taking industrial action when they are bargaining for "non-permitted" matters, in the wake of a FWC full bench decision on the issue this week.
Two BHP Coal employees who helped look after their newborn babies while their partners recovered from caesarean sections were not entitled to parental leave as the primary care givers under the company's enterprise agreement, the FWC has ruled.
A senior FWC full bench has moved to clarify the confusion caused by conflicting decisions on whether unions that bargain for non-permitted matters are "genuinely trying to reach an agreement" under the Fair Work Act.
The Federal Government is trying to curb lawful industrial action and reduce the likelihood that bargaining will result in collective deals in a bill it introduced into federal Parliament late last year, according to the ACTU.
