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Underpayments bill continuing to mount for Woolies

Woolworths claims Friday's Federal Court underpayments ruling will cost it an extra $470 million before tax and "will require significant and widespread changes to accepted retail practice".

Former CFMEU leader fit for union office: FWC

The FWC has found a former CFMEU construction division official "removed" by administrator Mark Irving KC is fit to hold office in a union and act as a bargaining representative, five months after it cleared him to take up a part-time role with the ETU.

Employer body wins registered organisation status

After a three-year hiatus, the restaurant and catering sector again has a dedicated registered organisation, following a FWC ruling.

$108,000 for caretaker paid with housing rather than wages

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.

BHP's SJSP orders would subvert scheme's purpose: Bench

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".

12 months on, disconnect laws yet to be tested

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.

FWC to forge on with LSL dispute

A FWC presidential member has declined to grant an employer's request to delay consideration of its appeal against an unfavourable long service leave ruling while it awaits the result of a related Federal Court case, taking a dim view of its attempt to move forums "midstream".

Qantas case shows "fundamentally broken" IR system: Expert

A labour law academic says there is a need to ask how Australia's IR system is so "fundamentally broken" that it incentivises the conduct evident in Qantas's decision to unlawfully outsource jobs to avoid bargaining, in circumstances where the record $90 million fine imposed yesterday will barely dent its resultant annual savings.

No secondary line of defence in sacking process: Court

A judge has slapped an $8000 penalty on a major Commonwealth department after expressing astonishment that it does not have a "human or technological" system in place to ensure it pays dismissed employees their correct entitlements.

FWC sin-bins errant paid agent

The FWC has banned a paid agent from continuing to represent his client after finding him to blame for the worker's late dismissal challenge and that he sought to rely on a decision which "clearly does not exist" when arguing the application had been filed within time.

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