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Newsflash: High Court rejects Qantas outsourcing challenge

The High Court has today unanimously held that Qantas took unlawful adverse action against nearly 2000 former ground crew when it outsourced their jobs at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when their agreements were due to nominally expire.

Supported bargaining's architecture to limit effectiveness: Experts

The Fair Work Act's continuing focus on single-enterprise bargaining, along with weak underpinning awards and supported bargaining's restriction to multi-employer rather than sector-wide bargaining, will limit the new stream's capacity to achieve "decent wages" for low-paid female employees, according to leading IR academics.

Full court backs FWC rejection of CFMMEU demerger ballot

A full Federal Court has today rejected a bid by the CFMMEU's manufacturing division to overturn the FWC's decision to deny it a ballot of members to win approval to disamalgamate from the broader union.

"Breakthrough" deal for NSW public school teachers

The NSW Teachers Federation says a "breakthrough" in-principle deal will make the State's beginning and top-scale teachers the nation's best paid, after they stared down a Minns Government proposal to lock-in three annual 2.5% pay rises off the back of a first-year lift of up to 12%.

No option for second post-PABO mandatory conference: FWC

A FWC member has issued the "strongest recommendation" for AMWU members at an Ampol refinery to cease industrial action and vote up a new deal, after expressing her view that she lacked the power to convene a second post-PABO compulsory conciliation conference.

Chevron facing stoppages next week

The Offshore Alliance and the ETU have notified Chevron that it will hit its Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG facilities with rolling stoppages and work bans from next Thursday, with the unions deriding its decision to put an unsupported deal to a vote tomorrow.

Unions don't need to telegraph strike plans: FWC

Failing to alert an employer to strike plans does not amount to a failure to genuinely try to reach an agreement, the FWC has ruled in rejecting a company's bid to block a protected action ballot.

Offshore gas strike threat recedes after Woodside peace deal

Woodside has narrowly averted impending industrial action at its North West Shelf gas platforms after reaching an in-principle deal endorsed by Offshore Alliance and ETU members this morning, while protected action ballots at Chevron are set to close today.

FSU wins $3 million for CommBank's tea break "fiasco"

The FSU says Commonwealth Bank retail workers forced to work through their 10-minute tea breaks for the past six years will be compensated, after it won a $3 million settlement of its $45 million Federal Court claim.

Meat union weighing merger with AMWU

The meatworkers union has confirmed it is in tentative talks with the AMWU about a potential merger to boost member representation and provide "a larger voice".