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"Implied" vote enough for union rule change

The head of the FWC's registered organisations branch has warned Australia's second-biggest union that another decision-maker might not be so accommodating in approving a rule change advanced without conducting a formal vote.

Way cleared for Qantas outpost to win IBD

Qantas subsidiary Network Aviation looks likely to win an intractable bargaining declaration, after unions' last-minute decision not to oppose it, ahead of a hearing today.

Impose "hardship" threshold for flex rebuffals: Unions

The ACTU is calling for award variations requiring employers to accommodate flexible work requests unless they cause "unjustifiable hardship" rather than allowing refusals on reasonable business grounds, while it says workers should have a right to seek working from home arrangements on an "individual and collective basis".

Half-baked settlement deeds not enough to close case

The FWC has rejected an employer's bid to wind up a general manager's unfair dismissal case after finding that neither of two settlement offers could be regarded as binding.

Federal Police back politician-targeting protected action

Australian Federal Police Association members have endorsed taking 36 types of protected industrial action - including indefinite or periodic bans on attending Federal politicians' functions or events that do not carry a "significant" threat rating or higher - in pursuit of pay rises that break the shackles of the Albanese Government's 11.2% over three years public sector pay deal.


Call for disconnect rights term in agreements

A labour law expert has told a Senate inquiry he supports the Albanese Government's Bill to remove criminal sanctions from right to disconnect laws but he believes there should be a new requirement for all agreements to contain a disconnection rights term.

FWC analysis identifies award interplay with disconnect right

The FWC has identified 11 award provisions, extending to overtime, reasonable additional hours and on-call, that might interact with new terms to entrench the right to disconnect, ahead of the new laws taking effect in late August.

"Insensitive", profane manager loses adverse action case

A European expatriate who regularly swore at his Australian subordinates in an apparent attempt to spur them to achieve work standards expected in his homeland has lost his adverse action case against his former employer, after a court ruled his behaviour warranted summary dismissal.