Applications for "same job, same pay" orders are available from today, along with stronger workplace delegates rights, after the Closing Loopholes Act received Royal Assent yesterday.
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 FWC has held that it cannot deal with a worker's casual conversion dispute as the recent sale of the business she works for has restarted the clock on her requirement to complete 12 months' service with her current employer.
Virgin Australia has averted the risk of strikes disrupting flights over the holidays, with the FAAA and the TWU announcing this afternoon that they have reached a deal lifting pay by between 14% and 18% over three years, delivering safer rosters and improving "work-life balance".
A leading IR legal expert says Victoria's selection as host jurisdiction for a harmonised labour hire licensing scheme and National Labour Hire Regulator is a "fitting reflection" of its contribution in recent years, but the industry peak body has expressed disappointment and surprise.
A court has issued rare orders compelling a former economics professor to face FWO questions under oath about his capacity to pay penalties and compensation arising from underpayment judgments handed down in 2019 and 2020.
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.
In a decision delving deeply into the statutory definition of bullying, a senior FWC member has observed that allowances should be made for "some degree of exasperation or tension" between managers and those they supervise.
Australia's workplace safety ministers have today unanimously voted to prohibit the use, supply and manufacture of engineered stone, starting in most states and territories from July next year.
The HSU's NSW branch says a historic breakthrough deal today will provide a total pay rise for the State's paramedics of 11.4% to 29.6% over four years.
