Shadow treasurer reiterates casual definition promise;Tribunal orders paramedics to drop bans; and Tight timeline for "frontline workers" Bill inquiry.
The ANMF is urging the FWC to use "right to disconnect" award variations to make it harder for employers to cut costs by relying on "threadbare" staffing and refusing to roster enough workers on-call, while the NTEU wants casual academics paid to respond to students outside their working hours.
The registered organisations branch of the FWC has unveiled a compliance and enforcement policy in which "common interests" such as cutting red tape are described as being at the "centre" of its regulatory approach.
Victorian nurses have rejected an in-principle agreement with the Allan Labor Government, instead pushing to flow-on expected pay rises from the FWC's aged care work value case across the state's public health sector.
A group of DP World wharfies unfairly sacked for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 have failed to knock out a decision not to reinstate them, leaving a question hanging around the lawfulness of their employer's actions.
A Federal Court judge has today urged a head contractor and the CFMEU to engage in conciliation in the FWC to resolve an entry rights dispute, in his reasons published today for temporarily restraining the union and officials after a blockade of a major Queensland construction project alleged to constitute a secondary boycott.
The FWC has lashed a HR consultant's "astonishingly poor" advice as contributing to the unfair dismissal of a long-serving manager whose redundancy process descended into accusations of serious misconduct, in part because of a mistaken belief that he emailed malware to his former employer.
Employers would have to take all reasonably practicable steps to eliminate or minimise the need to contact workers out of hours, such as through adequate staffing and informing managers and third parties, under an ACTU draft "right to disconnect" award clause.