Bargaining representatives say being an intermediary between colleagues and employers is "time-consuming", "stressful" and "confronting", in a new report that makes six recommendations for how the Fair Work Commission can better support them.
There's been a dramatic increase in employees covered by an enterprise agreement over the past year, but bargaining is "not something to be afraid of", an expert advisor says.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that hundreds of labour hire employees, on-hired to Woolworths, are not entitled to the backpay that their directly-employed colleagues received after voting up a new enterprise agreement with a 'same pay' clause.
The Fair Work Commission has issued its first 'same job, same pay' order, which will potentially result in pay rises of up to $20k for covered workers.
An employee who tried to defend an "offensive" social media post as "intellectual freedom" has failed to prove he exercised his right in accordance with the "highest ethical, professional and legal standards".
The importance of engaging and communicating with employees about enterprise agreements cannot be understated, a lawyer stresses, noting HR professionals have a "critical" role to play in the new bargaining landscape.
The Fair Work Commission didn't become a "protagonist" when it aimed to vindicate its "theory" that an employer engaged in an elaborate sham to deprive workers of penalty rates, the Federal Court has found in rejecting an apprehended bias claim.
Legislative reforms designed to resuscitate enterprise bargaining are doing just that. Understand what this means for your organisation by watching this HR Daily Premium webcast.
CBA HR managers were "indifferent" to the risks that individual flexibility arrangements weren't meeting employees' EA entitlements, the Federal Court has ruled.
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