Interested parties have until 4pm next Monday to comment on draft employer and employee surveys commissioned as a key component of the FWC's bid to develop an award clause removing impediments to working from home.
Ahead of a 10-day full bench hearing of a bid to significantly shake-up the retail award, the ACTU has hit out at employers backing measures to "buy-out" core conditions for workers on as little as $53,680 a year, ditch "smokos" and introduce split shifts.
A FWC expert panel has decided to phase in work value pay rises for aged care nurses over three tranches from March next year to August 2026, rejecting a Federal Government call to spread it over four instalments between next July and October 2027, while its decision on classification structures has disappointed the ANMF.
The FWC has refused to approve a Subway franchisee's proposed deal designed to replace a zombie agreement, finding it not genuinely agreed because the employer failed to adequately explain which allowances would be absorbed into the rate of pay, and that penalty and minimum rates would freeze for the life of the agreement.
The SDA is calling on the FWC to use its powers to unilaterally amend a proposed Sephora agreement if it refuses to provide undertakings tackling an allegedly "diabolical" overtime pay freeze it contends the beauty retailer did not explain to workers.
The ASU claims employers seeking to vary the SCHADSÂ award sleepover allowance in a hearing starting today are attempting to make it lawful for community and disability support workers to be at work for up to 28 hours without overtime pay.
The use of rolling fixed-term contracts in the tertiary education sector is set to come under close scrutiny by a FWC full bench, while the tribunal has also moved ahead with its review of two arts sector awards in the wake of its inconclusive "targeted" examination of modern awards.
The FWC has cleared the way for a Philippines-based paralegal to pursue her unfair dismissal claim, finding her an employee of a Queensland law firm that paid her $12 an hour below award.
The Albanese Government has told a FWC full bench it supports its review of gender undervaluation of five female-dominated awards, but wants it to phase-in any resulting large increases to manage the effects on the public purse.
