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Unions call for increased loading, leave for casuals

The ACTU is calling for a boost to casuals' loading, leave entitlements and roster stability, plus the scrapping of individual flexibility agreements, in a submission to the FWC's job security modern awards review, while the ASU and FAAA are seeking an overhaul of airline cabin crew and ground staff awards.

Cold reception for "difficult" BOM manager

A judge has found the Bureau of Meteorology's chief executive unlawfully "managed" a senior employee on more than $200,000 out of her job, while observing in passing that the APS's use of individual flexibility agreements to bump up pay packets is "a game of smoke and mirrors" that limits public servants' redeployment options.

Bench set to consider Cleanaway workplace determination

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.

Court holds accountants to account for withholding records

An accountancy firm and its principal must pay penalties totalling almost $70,000 for failing to comply with FWO notices to produce documents linked to to its client's "grossly inadequate" employee record-keeping.

Scope questions torpedo Coles PABO bid

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.

FWC calls time on 24-year-old deal

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.

FWC offers no remedy for CSL's bargaining complaints

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.


Big fine for Italy after annual leave, records breaches

The Federal Court has flayed the Republic of Italy for failing to heed Australian IR laws in its local consulates and has ordered it to pay a $94,000 fine, $7500 compensation and indemnity costs to an administrative employee after it failed to pay him annual leave loading for six years, to keep records in English and to produce the records on demand.

"Well-intentioned" department fined over 2016 teacher sacking

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.