The FWC has upbraided an early learning facility for seeking to override a part-time employee's right to predictable hours that the employer found "commercially or operationally inconvenient".
The MEU has sought High Court leave to intervene in the Coal LSL's challenge to a finding that Orica's obligation to make contributions to the scheme on behalf of shotfirers ceased in 2022 when it sold a separate business providing services to underground mines.
A FWC full bench has slightly altered the issues it will consider in its review of award part-time provisions after considering submissions and is seeking further feedback this month on the scope of a research proposal.
The FWC is proposing to quickly insert a far broader delegates' rights term in modern awards, following a full Federal Court decision to quash the Commission's previous "impermissibly confined" term.
A FWC expert panel is inviting parties to the SCHADS award gender undervaluation case to tell it at a hearing tomorrow what they think of a possible new classification structure thrashed out in a series of conferences, as an alternative to the panel's provisionally-floated model, and to weigh in on multiple issues in dispute.
The MEU says a full Federal Court's quashing today of FWC decisions inserting a delegates' rights term into modern awards emphatically confirms that the Closing Loopholes laws allow workplace delegates to represent workers on site regardless of labour hire or employment arrangements.
An underpaying café owner who claims to hold a law degree has for the second time run afoul of a court during proceedings involving the FWO, with a judge deciding to again refer her to a legal profession regulator after finding it "difficult to reconcile" her supposed qualifications with the tenor of her oral and written submissions.
The implications of the Federal Court's retail underpayments decision are only starting to be understood, with employment law academic Andrew Stewart warning of the significent consequences of its redefinition of employer record-keeping obligations and findings on proving workers' agreement to vary award conditions.
The workplace watchdog's power to hold franchisors to account for franchisees' underpayments has been bolstered, after a full Federal Court today threw out a challenge by the Bakers Delight chain.
Ahead of a 17-day full bench hearing of the shop union's junior rates case from October 20, the FWC has published summaries of the "substantial" evidence, which show that the AiG is arguing that lower rates create an incentive to employ young people, and RAFFWU characterising junior wages as a form of "child labour exploitation".
