Direct care workers in aged care will receive total work value pay rises of up to 28.5% after a five-member FWC full bench handed down its final ruling today.
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".
An employer has failed to convince the FWC that it should reduce a worker's redundancy payment from 13 weeks to six, finding that although it secured another job for him on the same pay, losing private use of a company car meant the role was not "substantially the same".
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.
Qantas subsidiary Network Aviation looks likely to win an intractable bargaining declaration, after unions' last-minute decision not to oppose it, ahead of a hearing today.
The FWC has rejected an employer's bid to wind up a general manager's unfair dismissal case after finding that neither of two settlement offers could be regarded as binding.
Australian Federal Police Association members have endorsed taking 36 types of protected industrial action - including indefinite or periodic bans on attending Federal politicians' functions or events that do not carry a "significant" threat rating or higher - in pursuit of pay rises that break the shackles of the Albanese Government's 11.2% over three years public sector pay deal.
The MEU has today lodged the first "same job, same pay" application, for labour hire workers at a Queensland coal mine, promising it will be the first of many.
A labour law expert has told a Senate inquiry he supports the Albanese Government's Bill to remove criminal sanctions from right to disconnect laws but he believes there should be a new requirement for all agreements to contain a disconnection rights term.
The FWC has identified 11 award provisions, extending to overtime, reasonable additional hours and on-call, that might interact with new terms to entrench the right to disconnect, ahead of the new laws taking effect in late August.
