Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke will next week introduce amendments to the Closing Loopholes legislation after striking a third deal with employer and industry groups.
Woolworths Group breached good faith bargaining obligations by circulating a Big W deal struck with the SDA and the AWU before giving RAFFWU a chance to consider it, but the FWC has refused to delay the vote as it would not significantly alter the offer.
The FWC has extended time for a worker to lodge an adverse action case, finding that a delay in receiving workers compensation payments prevented him from seeing his psychologist for an acute stress disorder, which justified the 38-day delay.
The High Court has this afternoon declined to hear DEWR's challenge to a ruling that limits funds available to pay employee entitlements when a company goes under.
The CFMMEU's mining and energy division is in a robust financial position to resume operation as a standalone union for the first time in 31 years, after the Federal Court backed its demerger from next month.
The High Court has rejected BHP's bid to challenge a full Federal Court ruling clarifying when employees can reasonably refuse requests to work on public holidays.
The TWU has endorsed an in-principle deal for Virgin ground workers that will lift their pay by as much as 20% in the first year, but the airline's cabin crew are still considering industrial action as the FAAA maintains their offer is not enough off the back of "poverty rates".
A bartender who mistakenly believed they had been sacked subsequently provided a valid reason for summary dismissal by calling their managers "c—ts" in a staff Facebook group farewell spray, the FWC has held, while a HR process "devoid of sophistication" did not make it unfair.
A FWC full bench has refused to extend a farm's 16-year-old deal for 12 weeks beyond next month's sunsetting of zombie agreements, describing the application as an effort to pay below-award rates for "one more" onion-picking season.
Protected industrial action by Royal Flying Doctor Service nurses has been put on hold after the ballot agent named the wrong union on the voting report.