The FWC has asked the Coalition to consider backdating its legislation to give the tribunal discretion to correct minor errors in bargaining notices, after a new regulation designed to reduce defects appears to have made things worse.
Half a million retail and fast food workers employed under agreements negotiated by the SDA are more than $300 million a year worse off than they would be under awards, a Senate inquiry has been told.
The FWC has approved an agreement for 2,000 staffers for members of Federal Parliament, despite union claims it was not genuinely agreed because "voting irregularities" caused by the electronic voting system disenfranchised substantial numbers of workers.
The FWC has approved an agreement struck with three underground mineworkers that exposes them to fines for failing to comply with directions and safety procedures but provides hourly rates up to 35% higher than the award and up to $28,000 a year in bonus payments.
An Emirates group subsidiary is planning to cut pay and conditions for its ground crew at Australian airports, the ASU has alleged in a submission to a Senate inquiry.
An undertaking that enabled employees who believed they had been underpaid to seek a reconciliation did not create "an enforceable right to any payment", an FWC full bench has ruled in overturning the approval of an enterprise agreement.
The High Court has granted retailer Aldi's application for special leave to appeal a full Federal Court decision that knocked out a controversial agreement but has rejected a bid to challenge a Victorian court's decision to award a chief information officer more than $477,000 in damages.
An FWC full bench has highlighted the limits of permissible ex parte communication between parties to agreements and tribunal members, in a ruling in which it found that such exchanges denied procedural fairness to the union objecting to a deal's approval.
Stay application tomorrow for bargaining notices appeal; Seven West goes public on gagged former assistant; Calls for inquiry into safety implications of Airservices job cuts; and Union using FOI to obtain bullying report.
