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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Interested parties have until early February to provide feedback on a job security discussion paper published this week as part of the FWC's review of modern awards.
A Federal Court judge has used his farewell to implore lawmakers to reconsider adding to the "arcane overcomplexity and prolixity of important Acts" that render interpreting their intent "beyond understanding".
