The UFU's aviation branch has welcomed an in-principle agreement three-year for airport firefighters that uses allowances, job classification upgrades and higher overtime rates to improve on the Federal Government's public sector pay cap of 11.2% over three years.
The Ai Group has told a Senate inquiry that the jobs transition plan in the Net Zero Bill currently before parliament "treads on very sensitive ground" when set against the established treatment of redundancies in Australia's IR framework.
The FWC's annual wage review will have to deliver a rise in the federal minimum wage of at least 3.6% to meet the Federal Government's push for an inflation-matching pay rise, following the release of the latest ABS cost-of-living data.
Lawyers behind an underpayments class action on behalf of more than 20,000 junior doctors say a $230 million settlement reached with NSW Health is the largest in the nation's legal history and represents a "seismic shift".
The Federal Court has given a media company until next month to change its defence against an article that allegedly carries the defamatory imputation that a university professor created or fostered a toxic workplace culture of bullying and fear.
RAFFWU has established that most Victorian workers at Factory X fashion brands Dangerfield and Princess Highway want to bargain but has lost its bid for a MSD after the FWC found it arbitrarily excluded cottage sister brand Gorman.
A construction company has failed in its bid to stop potential strikes amid claims of union interference in the protected action ballot process, the FWC pointing out that it cannot make orders preventing industrial action yet to be endorsed or notified.
Coal mining companies have called for the FWC to ensure that the new workplace delegates' rights do not allow an employee of one employer to represent employees of another, but the ACTU says the employer proposal "unjustifiably narrows" the Fair Work Act's definition of "enterprise".
A training officer employed on a fixed term contract can proceed with his adverse action case against a volunteer rescue organisation after the FWC accepted that it sacked him when it told him two weeks before its expiry that it would not be renewed.
A judge has warned the FWO of a possible "perception" it failed to comply with its model litigant obligations after dropping the "most serious" claim of threatening behaviour from a CFMEU right of entry case as part of a liability deal.
