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.
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.
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".
As Adero Law prepares to file a class action accusing Super Retail Group of underpaying up to 3000 store managers via an "entirely foreign" annualised salaries system, the company has sacked its chief executive over his affair with its former head of HR, while defending proceedings launched by two whistleblowers.
Almost a year since the FWC inserted right to disconnect terms in awards and on the eve of the entitlement extending to small businesses, the FWC is indicating that the lack of any significant case law since its inception suggests it should delay a promised 12-month review and development of guidelines.
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