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FWC timetables delegates' rights changes

Interested parties have until next Thursday to comment on a draft timetable to deliver on the Closing Loopholes legislative requirement that, from June 30, all awards contain a term setting out expanded rights for workplace union delegates.

Stop-start traffic control deal gets green light

The FWC has at the second time of asking approved a deal after receiving an undertaking that the employer will not hire anybody under a novel "new entrant" category paying construction workers who become traffic controllers 6% below their award rate at the same time as denying them an industry allowance.

No intention to intervene in DPW dispute: Burke

Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has criticised stevedore DP World for "relying on ministerial intervention" to resolve its bargaining dispute with the MUA, saying he told the company today he has no intention to take such a step.

Time to regulate paid IR agents?: FWC

A senior FWC member has questioned whether paid IR agents should be more closely regulated after expressing dismay that a firm had no processes to identify an incorrectly entered date that led to late filing of a worker's unfair dismissal claim.

Try again on award review submission, FWC tells BCA

FWC President Adam Hatcher has given the BCA another fortnight to make a compliant submission to the awards review after it filed a proposal "directly contrary" to the scope of the project.

Burke to "hear out" DP World on docks dispute

IR Minister Tony Burke is meeting with DP World this morning as the company warns its operations are being severely affected by protected action, while the MUA says last week's talks failed to achieve meaningful progress or a formal settlement offer from the company.


Lone striker to test whether industrial action still protected

A university is seeking to appeal a finding that the NTEU can keep relying on its protected action ballot order even after the scope of its proposed all-in deal changed as a result of one of the workgroups voting up a separate agreement.