The FSU is backing the requests from 20 CBA workers seeking to extend the life of their zombie AWAs in the wake of a recent full bench finding that one of their colleagues would lose $17,000 in long service leave pay if she reverted to the bank's 2020 agreement.
A FWC full bench is set to hear the TWU and waste giant Cleanaway on a workplace determination for the company's Erskine Park site in April, after a 14-day post-IBD negotiating period met expectations that it wouldn't lead to agreement.
Closing Loopholes 2 provisions that substantially increase penalties for breaching the Fair Work Act should prompt employers to consider boosting their investment in payroll systems and checking compliance, Adelaide University Professor of Law Andrew Stewart says.
RAFFWU will challenge the rejection of a PABO bid targeting Coles supermarkets and Liquorland outlets after the FWC found it failed to genuinely bargain on behalf of salaried managers it wants to include in a multi-employer deal.
BHP iron ore train drivers in the Pilbara have called off tomorrow's planned 24-hour strike, after reaching what the MEU says is an "industry-leading" in-principle enterprise deal that provides a guaranteed across-the-board 20% pay rise over four years and $40,000 in retention payments.
The FSU has failed to extend the life of an agreement made at the dawn of the century while it pursues a majority support determination forcing AMP to the bargaining table.
Biotechnology giant CSL has failed to win rare bargaining orders sought against two maintenance unions after the FWC dismissed a HR manager's "flimsy" evidence that contractors had been intimidated by a picket.
CSL has fended off interim orders that would have halted negotiations for a new deal for workers at a flagship vaccine-making facility due to start operating in 2026, after unions raised concerns that a leaked internal document revealed plans to undermine existing pay and conditions.
A former public school teacher has been awarded $10,500 in penalties after pursuing the ACT's education department through the courts for more than seven years over allegations it unlawfully dismissed her, breaching its agreement's job security terms.
A senior FWC member has delved into arbitral history to offer his own definition of a 'seven day shiftworker' after expressing frustration that there is no "simple" or "unambiguous" description of the term in the many awards it is employed.