The Albanese Government will provide $3.6 billion to fund a 15% pay increase over two years for early childhood educators and care workers as a "retention payment" to the under-pressure sector, with the money contingent on employers having an enterprise agreement in place.
Efforts to install an administrator in the CFMEU's construction division branches have hit further speed humps in the NSW Industrial Court today, with counsel for the union claiming the Minns Government's application contains "fairly significant defects" that need to be corrected before the case can proceed.
The Federal Court has imposed a record penalty on a sushi restaurant chain to "disabuse" employers of the notion that penalties for underpayments are "an acceptable cost of doing business" and recommended that the Fair Work Ombudsman refer its chief executive's potential flouting of tax and migration laws to the ATO, Department of Home Affairs and ASIC.
The FWC's general manager has identified $187,000 in payments from the CFMEU construction division's Victorian branch, recorded as support for the re-election campaign of HSU branch leader Diana Asmar, as one of the actions justifying his application to put the division's national office and four branches in the hands of an administrator.
Protected action has resumed at Wilmar Sugar's mills in Queensland after talks convened by FWC Commissioner Bernie Riordan last week failed to resolve differences between parties.
If the FWC grants the SDA a first-of-its-kind supported bargaining authorisation targeting SA's McDonald's franchisees, the union says it will seek to lift pay, boost job security and get rid of an "outrageous" rostering practice.
The FWC says it suspended certain ETU work bans on NSW's power transmission network because Transgrid "clearly established" the action threatened lives, safety, health or welfare, but the union is celebrating the rejection of the private operator's latest "substandard" offer.
The FWC has reinforced its power to delve into the agreement-making process, regardless of employers' declarations and whether a proposed deal is supported by all those involved.
The FWC has rejected a Subway franchisee's proposed deal after the employer failed to properly explain that it freezes Saturday, Sunday and public holiday rates.
