A court has today praised RAFFWU for its service of the national interest in pursuing a McDonald's franchisee and securing $82,000 in fines against if for sinister, cruel, coercive threats via Facebook posts to deny its predominantly young workforce drink and toilet breaks required under the fast food chain's agreement.
BHP has again failed to win approval for two hotly-contested in-house labour hire deals after a FWC full bench majority rejected further undertakings to address four "genuine agreement" concerns.
Victoria International Container Terminal has asked the High Court to consider whether a full Federal Court brought the administration of justice into disrepute when it failed to find MUA organiser Richard Lunt a "front man" for the union's bid to quash the approval of the stevedore's enterprise agreement.
The FWC has rejected a proposal by Australia's oldest library to split employees' roles into front or back-of-house, pointing out that it couldn't "contradict" changes contained in its nominally-expired deal without varying, terminating or renegotiating the agreement.
An FWC full bench has rejected on public interest grounds a two-years-late AMWU bid to challenge the approval of a construction company's deal with two workers.
The "re-negotiation" of an agreement takes place when a new deal comes into force, rather than when parties first begin bargaining, the Federal Court has ruled.
In a decision traversing the circumstances in which the FWC will make findings about the legal status of Fair Work regulations, a full bench has rejected a bid to quash a coronavirus-driven agreement variation on the basis that recently-repealed shorter access provisions were invalid.
The FWC has varied a construction supply company's newly-approved deal after the ABCC objected to its consultation clause, maintaining it was inconsistent with the building code's freedom of association requirements.
A senior FWC member exceeded her powers when, in considering a majority support determination application, she ordered the AEC to ballot employees at the Commission's expense, a full bench has found.
