Awards do not adequately cover visual artists and the "preferable solution" is for the FWC to create a new award, the ACTU says in its submission to the modern awards review, while also recommending the Government extend the Closing Loopholes Bill's "employee-like" definition to non-digital platform workers.
The Federal Court has programmed a 10-day hearing in March next year to determine any compensation for the 1680 Qantas group employees the airline subjected to unlawful adverse action when it outsourced their jobs at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
Container terminal operator DP World's refusal to bargain while MUA members take protected action has contributed to a FWC finding that it would not be in the public interest to suspend it for a 90-day "cooling off" period.
The IEU is mourning the passing of former federal president and NSW/ACT secretary John Quessy, who spearheaded its long-running Teachers are Teachers campaign to gain parity between university-trained early childhood teachers and their counterparts in primary schools.
The Federal Court has refused to restrain the United Workers Union from dismissing two organisers who claim it subjected them to unlawful adverse action, finding the union's evidence "all-but-overwhelming".
The MUA says that progress has been made during the first two days of a scheduled six straight days of talks with container terminal operator DP World, in a bid to break deadlocked negotiations for a new enterprise agreement.
A Federal Court judge has today reserved on an application to restrain the UWU from dismissing two organisers who claim it subjected them to adverse action for backing a majority support petition as part of a campaign for a new in-house enterprise agreement, but the union claims their case is "untenable" and should be thrown out.
The NTEU has contributed to a doubling of Indigenous employment in tertiary education over the past two decades, by creating a "unique" union structure and using collective bargaining to establish employment targets and other Indigenous-specific provisions in enterprise agreements, an academic says.
The Mining and Energy Union is registered as a stand-alone entity from today, formalising its withdrawal from the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union.
A former One Nation and LNP Queensland MP is an officeholder in a "Pro Choice Union" applying for registration federally and in Queensland after leading a campaign to avoid COVID-19 vaccinations, with the FWC providing 35 days to lodge objections and the QIRC closing them off tomorrow.
