The UFU's Victorian branch will press ahead with an application under the Secure Jobs intractable bargaining provisions, despite receiving a long-awaited pay offer covering thousands of firefighters.
The Australian Industry Group has weighed into the early childhood education and care sector supported bargaining test case to tell the FWC it is not its job to "rubber stamp" applications even if all parties desire it and to warn of significant implications for those who might be "selectively excluded" but risk being roped in later.
A FWC full bench has trimmed a union-sought extension to three zombie deals covering more than 500 IT workers after factoring in the Secure Jobs legislation's inherent "policy preference" for agreements negotiated under the Fair Work Act.
FWC President Adam Hatcher will convene a directions hearing on Wednesday for what might be the first substantive test of the Secure Jobs' intractable bargaining declaration provisions, after the United Firefighters Union sought to break an impasse with Fire Rescue Victoria over wage rises for thousands of firefighters.
The FWC has panned rail operator Qube for "reneging" on an in-principle enterprise deal with the RTBU, after rejecting the union's bid to terminate industrial action that allegedly presented a threat to community safety and welfare.
The FWC has cleared the way for RAFFWU to ballot its Woolworths members on whether to take multiple forms of industrial action and will require the supermarket giant to attend a conciliation conference next Wednesday in what the unregistered union says is a "historic" win.
The FWC has reinforced its view that zombie agreements should not be extended "merely" because the parties are in harmony, observing that nothing is stopping a charity funded by Australia's orchestras from negotiating a new deal with its valued finance manager.
The FWC has killed off a zombie deal at the request of a leading men's fashion brand that transferred its retail workforce to the higher-paying award in 2019 in the mistaken belief the agreement stopped applying on its nominal expiry.
A FWO bid to piggyback a compliance notice breach case with underpayment orders has been upended by a court, which observed that merging the two pathways would "undermine" the Fair Work Act's integrity.
A FWC full bench has upheld a finding that Qube Ports cannot retrospectively vary expired agreements that no longer cover it in an attempt to avoid a major lawsuit over deductions of "gap" payments from up to 1000 wharfies' remuneration.
