The Albanese Government should repeal the wage theft offence and focus on simplifying the workplace relations system, the Australian Industry Group has told a Senate inquiry, while ACCI says that the absence of prosecutions shows that the "crime wave" used to justify the legislation "was false and misleading".
The ETU has accused BHP of putting forward a "baseline" agreement for the Pilbara's South Flank and Area C mines in an attempt to undermine the same-job, same-pay framework before on-hire workers "can even use it".
Legislation introduced this morning by the Albanese Government promises to reduce the FWC's "unsustainable" workload, with key measures including a bypass of a full Federal Court ruling that has increased the tribunal's burden.
The Albanese Government has heard the FWC's cry for help as it prepares to introduce legislation tomorrow aimed at putting the brakes on and in some instances reversing the tribunal's AI-fuelled workload.
FWC Commissioner Jennifer Hunt's complaint that surfaced on Linked-In yesterday isn't the first, with the Commission revealing this evening that it counselled her after she raised an issue about another member two years ago, while she has also raised a further matter in recent weeks.
Most disability, home care, social and community services workers will from October next year be covered by a "vastly different" award providing pay rises of up to 27%, following yesterday's decision by a FWC expert panel considering gender undervaluation in highly-feminised sectors.
UWU president Jo-anne Schofield's United for You team appears to have won the union's college-style election, but In a major upset, she looks to have lost her position.
Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth has confirmed she commissioned an independent investigation by a silk after FWC member Jennifer Hunt complained of alleged "misbehaviour" by two senior presidential members, but said that after examining his findings, "the matter is now settled".
The FWC's annual wage review expert panel has today granted a below-inflation 4.75% rise in all award rates, after "regrettably" concluding it would not be "practicable or responsible" to order a larger increase in the current "uncertain" economic conditions.
An airline has succeeded in having a former manager's redundancy pay cut to zero after the FWC found his insistence on amending an intellectual property clause in his contract did not alter the fact that it offered him "objectively acceptable" alternative employment.
