The AMWU has failed to persuade a FWC bench to prolong the life of a near-20-year-old zombie deal while it attempts to capitalise on a majority support determination forcing long-time nemesis Cochlear to the bargaining table.
The FWC bench appointed to scrutinise a paid agent's future involvement in adverse action and unfair dismissal cases has asked a first tranche of 46 applicants to explain why they need to be represented by a firm recently described as having engaged in "unethical" practices.
The Albanese Government has until tomorrow to table a long-awaited Australian Law Reform Commission report on tightening discrimination protections for teachers and other workers at religious schools, while the Prime Minister himself has flagged that the controversial legislation will go nowhere without bipartisan support.
The ANMF is seeking pay rises of up to 35% for an estimated 250,000 nurses, nursing assistants and midwives as part of a work value claim intended to build on the wins of the related aged care case and extend the "recognition" to other healthcare settings.
An "ineluctable finding" that the AFAP could not persuade pilot members at a Qantas subsidiary to vote up a new deal supported by the union has helped convince the FWC that it should make an intractable bargaining declaration sought by the airline.
The High Court will consider whether employers' duty of care and consequent exposure to damages extends to providing "safe" disciplinary and dismissal processes that protect sacked workers from psychiatric injury.
In a significant decision acknowledged as potentially being viewed as "undemocratic", a FWC full bench majority has found it has the power to make a workplace determination on contested bargaining matters after a deal has already been approved by the Commission.
A ceremony to welcome former employment and IR silk Craig Dowling as a Federal Court judge has heard his in-court performance has been likened to a cobra hypnotising a mouse, while barristers always wanted to work with him as he left "no stone unturned".
The head of the FWC's registered organisations branch has warned Australia's second-biggest union that another decision-maker might not be so accommodating in approving a rule change advanced without conducting a formal vote.
