The AMWU is pushing for 'site rates' at a big McCains food processing plant in regional Victoria to discourage the spread of contractors and labour hire workers by ensuring they are on the same pay and conditions as employees.
Incentive payment provisions in a remuneration document referenced in abattoir operator Teys Australia's enterprise agreement did not vary or become incorporated terms of the agreement, a full Federal Court has ruled.
The FWC has granted an AWU bid for a majority support determination after an employer "gilded the lily" in its one-sided presentation against bargaining with the union at a toolbox meeting.
The FWC has agreed to suppress the identity of an employee representative who signed off on an enterprise agreement on the condition he would remain anonymous, because he feared victimisation in the workplace after the ETU resolved to oppose it.
The Fair Work Commission has granted an interim order to stop DP World from requiring its stevedores at the Port of Melbourne to take on the new task of mooring and un-mooring ships.
Aluminium giant Alcoa breached status-quo provisions in its enterprise agreement by disciplining AWU delegates embroiled in a dispute over their refusal to stop wearing shirts bearing union logos when it introduced a new uniform policy last year, the FWC has found.
Victoria's volunteer firefighters will tomorrow revive their bid to block the Country Fire Authority from seeking approval for its new enterprise agreement.
