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Fast independent news and analysis for IR/HR practitioners.Court tosses out ROC case against MEU leader
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The Federal Court has thrown out a "time barred" former ROC case accusing a MEU mining and energy division president of misusing his union credit card to cover a series of private expenses in the 2016 financial year, while also finding no evidence of dishonesty.Workplace Express2024-03-28T15:08:58+11:00Case reallocated despite recusal refusal
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FWC member Bernie Riordan has dismissed a recusal bid, denying that he is biased towards tradespeople and against women, but will reallocate the case to preserve the tribunal's "scarce" resources.Workplace Express2024-03-28T06:32:08+11:00AiG backs 2.8% pay lift; Bull back in the ring; & more
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AiG backs 2.8% minimum wage lift; Bull back in the ring; Award super right to apply from next month; and Timetable tweak for RtD provision in awards.Workplace Express2024-03-27T14:27:17+11:00FWC laments "like it or lump it" extra hours scenario
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The FWC has expressed dismay at a large aged care employer's "shift bidding" system in which it offers part-time workers extra hours only at ordinary pay, recommending instead that each employee get a chance to cap how many such shifts they are prepared to work without receiving overtime rates.Workplace Express2024-03-26T12:34:03+11:00Sacked Qantas workers face delay for compensation
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Former Qantas ground crew seeking compensation for their unlawful sacking in 2020 will have to wait at least two more months after parties presented the trial judge with competing views about the cohort's continuing employment prospects.Workplace Express2024-03-26T07:07:12+11:00Unions seek 5% rise in minimum pay, award rates
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The ACTU will ask the the FWC to raise the national minimum wage and award rates by 5% when it files its claim for the Annual Wage Review this week.Workplace Express2024-03-25T22:04:00+11:00Limit minimum pay rise to 2%: ACCI
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The FWC's minimum wage panel should award an increase of no more than 2% in this year's annual wage review, according to peak employer group ACCI, partly to correct "errors" in the Commission's analysis in its last two rulings.Workplace Express2024-03-25T13:59:14+11:00FWC puts bank's zombie deals in the vault
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Union support has not proved enough for a clutch of CBA workers to have their zombie AWAs extended, after a FWC full bench accepted the bank's efforts to ameloriate any losses arising from transferring to its existing enterprise agreement.Workplace Express2024-03-25T11:45:57+11:00$8K to worker sacked for getting "demonic" COVID-19 jab
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A Newcastle-based church unfairly summarily dismissed a worker when it took the view that no-one vaccinated against COVID-19 could work for it because it viewed the inoculation as "the world's largest ever untested medical experiment", and retrospectively applied the policy to the worker without warning.Workplace Express2024-03-25T07:12:40+11:00Union launches second same-job, same-pay bid
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The MEU has lodged the second application to test the Closing Loopholes "same job, same pay" changes, this time aiming to lift the pay of Programmed labour hire workers at a NSW coal mine by $30,000 to $40,000, with many more claims planned.Workplace Express2024-03-22T14:44:06+11:00Crimp lawful employment bias in religious schools: ALRC
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The Law Reform Commission has recommended legal changes to substantially narrow the circumstances in which religious educational institutions can discriminate against their workers.Workplace Express2024-03-22T10:21:20+11:00Maximum fine for diplomat who kept worker in "slave-like conditions"
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A court has hit a former Indian High Commissioner with maximum fines for entrapping a worker in "powerless domestic servitude" in the guise of a diplomatic posting, paying her $9 daily to keep his palatial Canberra home 17.5 hours a day, seven days a week.Workplace Express2024-03-21T15:10:45+11:00FWC backs new Big W deal
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The FWC has approved, with undertakings, a Big W agreement once labelled by RAFFWU as a "shocking deal".Workplace Express2024-03-21T06:59:10+11:00FWC rejects union bid to extend 2005 deal
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The AMWU has failed to persuade a FWC bench to prolong the life of a near-20-year-old zombie deal while it attempts to capitalise on a majority support determination forcing long-time nemesis Cochlear to the bargaining table.Workplace Express2024-03-20T15:43:32+11:00Portable entitlements consultation put on hold
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Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke says he has agreed to employer requests to delay consultation on a portable entitlements scheme.Workplace Express2024-03-20T14:31:27+11:00IR agent's representation to be determined en masse
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The FWC bench appointed to scrutinise a paid agent's future involvement in adverse action and unfair dismissal cases has asked a first tranche of 46 applicants to explain why they need to be represented by a firm recently described as having engaged in "unethical" practices.Workplace Express2024-03-20T13:17:13+11:00"It's time" say nurses seeking up to 35% pay lift
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The ANMF is seeking pay rises of up to 35% for an estimated 250,000 nurses, nursing assistants and midwives as part of a work value claim intended to build on the wins of the related aged care case and extend the "recognition" to other healthcare settings.Workplace Express2024-03-20T10:18:36+11:00Pilots ignoring course set by union: FWC
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An "ineluctable finding" that the AFAP could not persuade pilot members at a Qantas subsidiary to vote up a new deal supported by the union has helped convince the FWC that it should make an intractable bargaining declaration sought by the airline.Workplace Express2024-03-20T07:24:24+11:00Anchoring pay rises to wage ruling has delivered: SDA
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The SDA has strongly defended its tying of bargained pay rises to the FWC's annual safety net rises, pointing to inflation-beating increases over the past seven years enjoyed by 100,000 Coles workers, as voting opens today on the retailer's proposed four-year deal in the face of a RAFFWU campaign to reject it.Workplace Express2024-03-19T15:13:05+11:00$10 million sweetener secures PPL Bill's passage
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The Senate has passed legislation to raise federally-funded paid parental leave to 26 weeks by 2026 after crossbench senators Jacqui Lambie and David Pocock secured $10 million to help small businesses administer the scheme.Workplace Express2024-03-19T13:31:01+11:00High Court to rule on potential new duty of care for employers
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The High Court will consider whether employers' duty of care and consequent exposure to damages extends to providing "safe" disciplinary and dismissal processes that protect sacked workers from psychiatric injury.Workplace Express2024-03-19T12:10:08+11:00Angelic expectations might be unfair: FWC
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The FWC has found understaffing weighed heavily on the mind of a custody officer sacked by Ventia for headbutting a door in frustration at a prisoner on the other side, noting it might be "unfair to apply the standards expected of angels to mere humans".Workplace Express2024-03-18T15:38:42+11:00FWC can rule on disputed terms after deal approved: Bench
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In a significant decision acknowledged as potentially being viewed as "undemocratic", a FWC full bench majority has found it has the power to make a workplace determination on contested bargaining matters after a deal has already been approved by the Commission.Workplace Express2024-03-18T13:19:32+11:00Give menopausal women right to flexible work: Union
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The FSU has told a Senate inquiry that employees suffering from perimenopause or menopausal symptoms should have a right to apply for flexible work, while Maurice Blackburn says an ability to work from home, access extra paid leave and take longer breaks greatly improves engagement.Workplace Express2024-03-18T07:26:16+11:00Work value case delivers up to 28.5% for aged care workers
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Direct care workers in aged care will receive total work value pay rises of up to 28.5% after a five-member FWC full bench handed down its final ruling today.Workplace Express2024-03-15T14:51:16+11:00"Cobra-like" IR barrister welcomed to court bench
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A ceremony to welcome former employment and IR silk Craig Dowling as a Federal Court judge has heard his in-court performance has been likened to a cobra hypnotising a mouse, while barristers always wanted to work with him as he left "no stone unturned".Workplace Express2024-03-15T11:45:09+11:00No car means new role not acceptable alternative: FWC
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An employer has failed to convince the FWC that it should reduce a worker's redundancy payment from 13 weeks to six, finding that although it secured another job for him on the same pay, losing private use of a company car meant the role was not "substantially the same".Workplace Express2024-03-15T06:40:37+11:00"Implied" vote enough for union rule change
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The head of the FWC's registered organisations branch has warned Australia's second-biggest union that another decision-maker might not be so accommodating in approving a rule change advanced without conducting a formal vote.Workplace Express2024-03-14T15:21:18+11:00Way cleared for Qantas outpost to win IBD
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Qantas subsidiary Network Aviation looks likely to win an intractable bargaining declaration, after unions' last-minute decision not to oppose it, ahead of a hearing today.Workplace Express2024-03-14T14:26:18+11:00Half-baked settlement deeds not enough to close case
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The FWC has rejected an employer's bid to wind up a general manager's unfair dismissal case after finding that neither of two settlement offers could be regarded as binding.Workplace Express2024-03-14T07:26:56+11:00