The FWC has cited Alice in Wonderland in endorsing an employer's right under its enterprise agreement to impose a 25% annual salary reduction on hundreds of fly-in, fly-out rail maintenance workers it shifted from a 14-days-on, seven-days-off roster to a seven-days-on, seven-days-off regime.
ETU members employed at the NSW electricity distributor Essential Energy have overwhelmingly endorsed protected work bans and stoppages, which they can begin activating next week.
An employer complied with its agreement when it substituted Victoria's newly-gazetted AFL Grand Final eve public holiday for the company's Christmas Eve public holiday, a full bench has ruled.
A newly-approved variation to fast food giant McDonald's enterprise agreement has secured gains for home delivery drivers, including their own classification, longer breaks and car insurance, according to SDA national secretary Gerard Dwyer.
Notices to employees that allegedly misrepresented union support for a proposed enterprise agreement that had the "potential to mislead" and could be characterised as "unfair" did not undermine the collective bargaining process, a FWC full bench has ruled.
The FWC has stymied a bid by an employer on a major resources project to win approval for its enterprise agreement, ruling its 36 casual workers were not eligible to vote because they weren't "employed at the time" when they voted.
The FWC has granted the AMIEU access to the records of non-members after it raised suspicions an employer was underpaying workers by failing to honour an incentive payment scheme.
An independent Islamic school unlawfully refused entry to union organisers to inspect documents, manipulated employee records and made more fixed-term teaching appointments than permitted under its award, the Federal Court has found.
Tug operator Svitzer has moved to a single national agreement, after the FWC rejected objections from one of three unions that the company had unfairly selected the employees to be covered.