The FWC is set to make a same-job, same-pay order covering on-hire casual de-stuffers at an Aldi distribution centre that will see their 25% loading and any allowances paid on top of a "loaded" base rate paid to permanent workers.
A CFMEU construction division official once deemed remorseless for multiple breaches and who is currently defending two court cases has won a new entry permit, with administrator Michael Crosby telling the FWC that past leaders "continually" let the organiser down.
The FWC has found that an employee of an Australian company who lives and works in New Zealand can bring an unfair dismissal claim, because the employer received his emailed contract acceptance in Victoria.
Extra time for Wood inquiry into CFMEU; Gender undervaluation boost now in October; Migrant Workers Centre launched in NSW; and FWC Bulletin final edition.
A cook has received almost $68,000 compensation after being sacked for supposedly refusing to attend mediation over her bullying claims – while in the midst of a Zoom meeting with a mediator.
Supermarket giant Aldi has failed to overturn the approval of three warehousing agreements that provided the first test of new Fair Work Act provisions giving the FWC powers to amend deals that fail the BOOT.
What is being billed as the first national survey of IR and employee relations professionals in Australia has been launched by the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association.
A FWC expert panel has proposed keeping in place an emergency contractual chain order helping contractors recover increased fuel costs until average diesel prices drop below $2 for four weeks.
The FWC has moved from sounding the alarm about its exploding workload to contemplating real cuts to its physical presence and changes to its processes that include taking advantage of the shift to online interactions to shrink its offices and triaging general protections cases at the conciliation phase.
Unions should be afforded the opportunity to reprise their traditional "cop on the beat" role by being handed the same powers as the FWO to refer underpayment cases to the DPP and AFP for prosecution, the NTEU says in a submission to the Senate wage theft inquiry.
