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BHP Coal slugged after "taking the odds" on overtime breach

Published: 26 March 2021 3:43pm

A judge has in imposing penalties on BMA factored in that management overseeing one of its a coal-loading facilities "took the odds" after being warned they were breaching its agreement by requiring workers to perform 455 overtime hours a year.

MSD granted despite union rebuke over "defective" petition

Published: 26 March 2021 11:56am

The FWC has overlooked a union's "typographical error" in misnaming an employer opposed to its bid for a majority support determination, but not before castigating it for eating up the Commission's time by refusing to correct its mistake.

PHON ready to pass amended Omnibus Bill this week

Published: 17 March 2021 5:43pm

Pauline Hanson's One Nation says it is prepared to pass the Morrison Government's IR Omnibus Bill this week, provided its amendments are accepted.

"Approve pay cut or lose your job" not coercion: FWC

Published: 17 March 2021 7:44am

A large catering contractor did not coerce its workers when it warned them they would lose their jobs and forgo severance if they failed to approve a pay cut for new employees, the FWC has found.

FWC member got wires crossed over electrician's allowance: Bench

Published: 15 March 2021 7:51am

A senior FWC member got his wires crossed when he insisted a union had asked him to rule on the same electrician's allowance dispute he had considered almost three years earlier, a full bench has found.

Union by-pass hiccup for NSW MBA

Published: 12 March 2021 12:24pm

The NSW MBA's campaign to build a beachhead of non-union agreements is in jeopardy, with the FWC rejecting two deals it found had not been genuinely agreed.

High Court timetables Personnel Contracting, Ridd cases

Published: 12 March 2021 7:12am

The High Court is likely to hear the Personnel Contracting/ZG Operations and Ridd cases in the second half of the year, after setting timetables for submissions to be completed by early June.

BHP could not conceal awkward purpose of meeting: FWC

Published: 10 March 2021 7:11am

A BHP worker accused of failing to cooperate with COVID-19 temperature screening should have been told before a meeting that it wanted to question him separately over a colleague's alleged misconduct, but the FWC says the employer did not need to reveal the investigation involved his support person.

Labour hirers not "exempt" from redeployment obligations: FWC

Published: 09 March 2021 2:36pm

A FWC member has resisted criticising labour hire company Workpac for mishandling the redundancies of five mine workers due to "extraordinary" COVID-19 circumstances but expressed disbelief at resource giant South32's ignorance of its supplier's statutory obligations.

FWC makes termination call on Telstra's zombie AWAs

Published: 05 March 2021 8:11am

The Fair Work Commission has declared a provisional view that it will agree to Telstra's request to terminate thousands of so-called "zombie" statutory individual agreements from the Work Choices era.

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