Adero Law is investigating potential underpayments at Super Retail Group stores as it sets its sights on a possible class action on behalf of current and former employees.
Labor maintains that its legislation to protect penalty and overtime rates, to be introduced to Parliament tomorrow, will block changes to awards that might make a single worker worse off.
With more than a third of young workers paid $15 an hour or less and almost half working unpaid overtime, loaded rates could provide a partial solution, according to new university research on the exploitation of young workers.
On-hire workers employed by BHP's in-house labour provider and its external suppliers have today won same-job, same-pay orders, after a FWC full bench rejected arguments that the service provider exemption and a "fair and reasonable" requirement stood in the way.
Academics say Menulog's abandoned bid for an on-demand delivery services award holds the clues to tensions and challenges likely to confront those attempting to establish the rules of the game for employee-like workers more broadly.
The Albanese Government should pass reforms to make it easier for tens of thousands of Pacific and Timor-Leste workers participating in the PALM scheme to access their superannuation, potentially by having it paid out as wages, according to university researchers.
A former Labor MP and current FWC deputy president has, after fending off another recusal application, dismissed claims it would be unfair, unreasonable or unconstitutional to grant same-job, same-pay orders lifting the pay of on-hire workers at a Whitehaven coal mine by up to $30,000 a year.
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance has taken the national public broadcaster to the Federal Court, claiming it is flouting new limits on fixed-term contracts by putting a Play School producer on his third such arrangement.
A retrenched educator who rejected an alternative role because she wanted to keep working from home at least a day a week has lost her severance entitlements, after the FWC found she did not have a formal right to maintain her flexible arrangements.