The FSU is backing the requests from 20 CBA workers seeking to extend the life of their zombie AWAs in the wake of a recent full bench finding that one of their colleagues would lose $17,000 in long service leave pay if she reverted to the bank's 2020 agreement.
The TWU has offered Qantas a rare endorsement after the airline today announced former Toll chair and Asciano chief executive John Mullen as its next chair, describing the appointment as offering a "glimmer of hope" that the employer-employee relationship could be reset at the national carrier.
A judge has found the Bureau of Meteorology's chief executive unlawfully "managed" a senior employee on more than $200,000 out of her job, while observing in passing that the APS's use of individual flexibility agreements to bump up pay packets is "a game of smoke and mirrors" that limits public servants' redeployment options.
A worker who is accusing his employer of sacking him after he complained about his co-workers' alleged discriminatory behaviour - included calling him a "skippy poofter" and grabbing his genitalia - has failed to cap his potential maximum court costs at $30,000.
An accountancy firm and its principal must pay penalties totalling almost $70,000 for failing to comply with FWO notices to produce documents linked to to its client's "grossly inadequate" employee record-keeping.
Closing Loopholes 2 provisions that substantially increase penalties for breaching the Fair Work Act should prompt employers to consider boosting their investment in payroll systems and checking compliance, Adelaide University Professor of Law Andrew Stewart says.
RAFFWU will challenge the rejection of a PABO bid targeting Coles supermarkets and Liquorland outlets after the FWC found it failed to genuinely bargain on behalf of salaried managers it wants to include in a multi-employer deal.
BHP iron ore train drivers in the Pilbara have called off tomorrow's planned 24-hour strike, after reaching what the MEU says is an "industry-leading" in-principle enterprise deal that provides a guaranteed across-the-board 20% pay rise over four years and $40,000 in retention payments.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has this morning introduced legislation to ensure that employers that flout right to disconnect "stop orders" cannot face criminal charges.
DEWR secretary Natalie James has defended her department's working from home arrangements and explained why they are different from the newly-passed laws giving employees a right to disconnect out of ordinary hours.
