Psychiatrist staff specialists in NSW public hospitals have won a temporary 10% "stop-gap" attraction and retention allowance, after a State IRC full bench accepted they had established a special case to address an "acute shortage", partly a result of "comparatively low pay", that is driving a reduction in the quality of mental health care.
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".
A MEU prompt has spurred a host employer subject to same-job, same-pay orders to fulfil its statutory obligation to tell the FWC about a recently-engaged labour-supplier.
The Federal Court will rule on Wednesday on BHP Coal's bid to stay the crucial FWC full bench rulings to issue same-job, same-pay orders for its Bowen Basin mines, after it revealed the decisions would impose extra costs of just $20 million to $30 million a year, when it had issued dire warnings in 2023 that it faced an impost of $1.3 billion dollars annually across its operations.
An employer that remunerated a live-in caretaker by providing him housing rather than wages must pay him him $108,000 in unpaid entitlements, following an appeal ruling affirming he had been engaged as a part-time employee.
The SDA's Victorian branch has secured a 46% pay increase for labour-hire workers at a major Woolworths distribution centre, after they previously received a flat rate regardless of experience.
A FWC full bench has today rejected a bid by BHP Coal and its OS entities to issue highly-specific, restrictive orders to give effect to July's landmark same-job, same-pay decision for the resource giant's Bowen Basin coal mines, warning that the proposed descriptions of those covered could undermine the scheme's purpose and be "swiftly evaded".
Days after the High Court refused permission to appeal a key decision recognising standby duty as paid work, a FWC full bench has weighed its implications for a Qantas subsidiary's long-awaited intractable bargaining workplace determination.
Burger chain Grill'd is making its second attempt to win approval of a national agreement, while the SDA's application to terminate the nominally expired deal depriving workers of award entitlements remains unresolved.
An employer that owes a worker more than $9000 in unpaid wages constructively dismissed her by underpaying her and consistently failing to pay her on time, if at all, the FWC has ruled, ordering it to pay $27,425 compensation.
