In a significant judgment on the FWC's powers, a full Federal Court has today dismissed a major hospitality group's claim that a Commission bench exhibited bias when it voiced its concerns about an already-approved agreement ultimately revealed to have been voted up by three venue managers and a payroll employee not covered by it.
The FWC has urged the Defence Department to send "an authorised and properly instructed representative" to deadlocked bargaining negotiations at the Australian Submarine Corporation.
Most universities now have cultural workload allowances for First Nations employees in their agreements that recognise the often unseen cultural education guidance they provide, with WA's Murdoch University the latest to adopt the entitlement, according to the NTEU.
The IEU is planning to apply for a supported bargaining authorisation covering up to 40 NSW community-based preschools by the end of the month, pushing for increases of at least 25% for teachers who are paid far less than they would receive if they worked in a school.
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.
A FWC full bench led by President Adam Hatcher has granted the SDA coverage in a deal capturing six Subway stores after the union successfully challenged approval of an agreement replacing a 17-year-old deal due to be automatically axed in December.
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.
The FWC has refused to grant Ventia an intractable bargaining declaration it sought after workers at outsourced Defence aviation firefighting operations in Queensland rejected its unilateral offer, in the tribunal's first contested IBD case determined by a single member.
The TWU is asking the FWC to hear in tandem its separate bids for intractable bargaining declaration bids at two Cleanaway Waste Management sites, but the company has no truck with that view, saying the context at each location is "very different".