Peak employer body ACCI will seek a 3.5% rise in the Annual Wage Review 2026 after chief executive Andrew McKellar described the ACTU's 5% claim as "self-defeating".
The ACTU is seeking a 5% rise in award rates and the federal minimum wage to keep pace with cost-of-living pressures "that have gotten a lot tougher" with the fuel price rises from the Middle East war and interest rate hikes.
The Albanese Government will amend the Fair Work Act to fast-track applications by unions and transport operators to win "emergency" supply chain orders from the FWC to raise rates to keep pace with surging fuel prices, driven by the Middle East war.
A full Federal Court has confirmed that homecare, disability and social workers should not be paid penalty rates for shifts immediately before or after sleepovers, four months after the FWC made draft award variations that will achieve the opposite.
A Westfield community engagement assistant's belief the company made her work "excessively hard" did not mean it forced her to resign, the FWC has found.
The Albanese Government is considering scrapping a "disastrous" requirement for the FWC to decide whether workers have been sacked before conciliating dismissal-related general protections claims, as part of its response to the tribunal's ballooning workload.
The Fair Work Commission has found the Department of Veterans' Affairs did not force an assistant director to resign during a fitness‑for‑duty process, concluding he chose to quit rather than risk an adverse assessment.
The ETU has failed to halt a lockout it claimed a company unlawfully initiated in response to safety inspections at a major NSW workshop, with the FWC finding the employer gave ample warning it would close the gates if workers went on strike.
The FWC has reaffirmed that a job's inherent requirements do not need to be spelled out in employment contracts, upholding the dismissal of a Triple Zero employee who lost his security clearance for sharing information from a police database.
