The CFMMEU's mining division has asked the FWC to intervene after almost two years of fruitless bargaining for enterprise agreements covering internal labour hire companies run by BHP's Operations Services.
The FWC has rejected a glass manufacturer's claims that it accidentally halved rest breaks in a proposed deal, dismissing the employer's approval application because it failed to adequately explain it and other deficient clauses to the workers who voted for it.
An employer has appealed to the Federal Court to quash FWC orders requiring five individuals to appear before a Commission full bench next week to address concerns over their role in the approval of its current agreement.
In a breakthrough for the ACTU ahead of this week's Jobs and Skills Summit, the Council of Small Business has agreed to support multi-employer agreements, while the two will also work together to achieve "new options" for workplace flexibility.
Unions and the Business Council have revived their plan for a more streamlined agreement approval process, with ACTU secretary Sally McManus suggesting the result could be a "really simple" system that might be better than that envisaged when the Hawke-Keating Government devised the bargaining regime in the early 1990s, while IR Minister Tony Burke said today he has shifted from his "hardline" opposition to changing the BOOT.
The AIPA says Qantas pilots have voted up, under threat of outsourcing, a newly-approved agreement variation that permits the flying kangaroo to apply existing fatigue rules for jets that fly six hours to its new generation Airbus A321XLRs that can be in the air for 11 hours.
An employer has been given a final chance to respond without compulsion to concerns about a recently-approved deal, after a FWC bench dismissed an "unusual" application for it to recuse itself over perceived bias.
A hospitality company's managers are facing possible orders to appear before a FWC bench and explain why they are listed as having voted up a subsidiary's contentious deal, along with a HR chief who sparked concerns that he might have lied on the application form.
A multinational company's lament about competing against "market disrupters" who treat workers as independent contractors has failed to distract the FWC from finding its proposed agreement failed the BOOT.
The FWC has accepted "social media equivalent" evidence of employee opposition before rejecting a food co-op's bid to terminate an agreement on the basis its wage rates could force the business to close.
