Overlooked evidence and orders beyond the Commission's powers have led to two offshore oil and gas industry companies overturning FWC rulings that reduced the amount docked from workers' pay after they engaged in partial work bans.
A supervisor's criticism of management in a social media group chat that "incit[ed] a negative and combative environment among the team", along with performance issues, provided a valid basis for dismissing her, the FWC has found.
The MUA has failed to convince a Federal Court judge that stevedores are owed for days lost through strikes because their agreement supposedly guaranteed 30 hours a week pay once they reached an annual threshold, whether they worked or not.
The FWC has halved the redundancy payouts for two finance workers who stood in the way of their employer's attempt to find jobs with a competitor by declining its request for updated resumes.
Annual growth in private sector pay has gone backwards for the first time since the height of the pandemic, according to ABS data released today, but it continues to outpace inflation.
The FWC has waved through a worker's late unfair dismissal application after accepting that it took seeing a job advertisement closely mirroring her role to crystallise doubts about whether she had genuinely been made redundant.
The Albanese Government has committed to funding further wage increases for aged care and child care workers in this year's federal budget but has not given further details, ahead of forthcoming determinations by the FWC.
Woolworths has again breached bargaining laws by failing to provide information to RAFFWU in a timely way, with the FWC ordering it to share SDA and AWU draft clauses and urging it to give bargaining representatives at least a week to consider a proposed deal before balloting members.
The ETU will push at next month's ACTU Congress for affiliates to support its plan to establish government-mandated "industry rates and conditions" in sectors crucial to the clean energy transition, such as solar power construction and transmission networks.
