FWC consulting on delegates' rights; New paper on industrial manslaughter; and Uber, TWU to address NSW IR Society conference on "employee-like" powers.
Former Qantas ground crew seeking compensation for their unlawful sacking in 2020 will have to wait at least two more months after parties presented the trial judge with competing views about the cohort's continuing employment prospects.
The FWC's minimum wage panel should award an increase of no more than 2% in this year's annual wage review, according to peak employer group ACCI, partly to correct "errors" in the Commission's analysis in its last two rulings.
Union support has not proved enough for a clutch of CBA workers to have their zombie AWAs extended, after a FWC full bench accepted the bank's efforts to ameloriate any losses arising from transferring to its existing enterprise agreement.
The Albanese Government will for the third year in a row tell the FWC it wants to ensure low-paid workers' wages don't go backwards in the annual wage review, while it will also urge it to overlook tax cuts and cost-of-living relief.
A Newcastle-based church unfairly summarily dismissed a worker when it took the view that no-one vaccinated against COVID-19 could work for it because it viewed the inoculation as "the world's largest ever untested medical experiment", and retrospectively applied the policy to the worker without warning.
The MEU has lodged the second application to test the Closing Loopholes "same job, same pay" changes, this time aiming to lift the pay of Programmed labour hire workers at a NSW coal mine by $30,000 to $40,000, with many more claims planned.
The ANMF's Victorian branch has stepped up its campaign to curb casualisation and provide incentives for permanent working hours to build a "stable" health workforce, as it negotiates towards a new four-year enterprise agreement for about 60,000 public sector nurses and midwives.
The Law Reform Commission has recommended legal changes to substantially narrow the circumstances in which religious educational institutions can discriminate against their workers.