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FWC refuses strike pause while Virgin pursues IBD

The FWC has refused to suspend engineers' industrial action at a Virgin Australia subsidiary while their employer pursues an intractable bargaining declaration, in an early test of the new Secure Jobs provision.


Confidentiality bid thwarted by pay secrecy provisions

In its first decision since pay secrecy penalties took effect this month, the FWC has rejected an employer's bid to redact a "commercially sensitive" list of clients included in a proposed agreement.

Apple flags new deal vote as old version faces axe

Apple says it expects to put a new agreement to retail workers next month as it resists RAFFWU's bid to axe the tech giant's 2014 deal, which the SDA also contends is replete with "palpable and entrenched unfairness" but refuses to support or oppose terminating while bargaining.

Employer bypass justifies non-AEC ballot agent: FWC

In the latest of a rash of PABO decisions since new Secure Jobs provisions took effect on June 6, the FWC has ruled that an employer's bid to bypass unions and put its agreement to a vote provides exceptional circumstances to warrant using a non-AEC ballot agent.

FWC provides clarity on glass deal's opaque CPI term

Visy workers in South Australia will receive a backdated 8.6% pay boost after the FWC found that their deal's annual rise clause applied the state's CPI figure rather than the lower national inflation rate.

Union seeks underpayment fix after FWC refuses to change deal

The NTEU is calling on Monash University to rectify $9 million in alleged underpayments to casual teachers after the FWC rejected a bid to retrospectively vary its agreement, while its vice chancellor and soon-to-be Victorian Governor says that without a "grand bargain" their payment systems will remain an "unproductive source of contestation".

$65K for worker sacked for telling contractor "take a sickie"

Resources giant Santos has been ordered to pay $65,000 to a worker sacked for telling a contractor to "take a sickie" during a strike, the FWC finding the dismissal harsh after weighing his long and unblemished career.

Higher bar for unapproved ballot agents in future: FWC

The FWC's national practice leader for bargaining has started the clock on compulsory conciliation while a strike vote is conducted, having also used one of the first applications under new workplace laws to suggest that while the "recency" of the provisions made a case for endorsing an unapproved ballot agent, the bar will be higher in future.

RAT request did not use "mandatory" language: FWC

The FWC has rejected a union bid to bill an aged care provider 15 minutes' overtime for workers required to have rapid antigen tests before each shift, but held that the employer "could and should have done more" to clarify its position.