The Fair Work Commission has this morning granted award-reliant workers a 3.5% increase, lifting the national minimum wage by $24.30 a week or 64 cents an hour in this year's annual wage review ruling.
The Fair Work Commission has reserved its decision on whether Federal Workplace Minister Craig Laundy can intervene in the approval of a new enterprise agreement covering the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade, an attempt criticised by the UFU as an "unprecedented hijack" of the process.
The Fair Work Commission will hand down the 2018 minimum wage review decision at 11am tomorrow, after the ACTU pushed for a substantial rise as a step towards its goal to lift the safety net to 60% of median earnings.
An FWC full bench has refused to overturn the dismissal of an animal welfare officer who alleged that his colleagues mishandled an investigation into the dumping of three crocodiles at a school.
The Australian Federation of Employers and Industries is calling on the FWC to dismiss the Independent Education Union's equal pay claim on behalf of early childhood teachers, drawing on an expert report to attack its use of primary school teachers and engineers as comparators.
A one-time star employee's anti-bullying application has been rejected despite acknowledgment of his "devastation" at being placed on successive performance improvement plans he believed resulted from unfair interpretations of his position description.
The Registered Organisations Commission has initiated a prosecution of the AWU's Victorian branch and its former secretary, Cesar Melhem, for allegedly failing to remove 2,000 unfinancial members from the books over a five-year period through to 2013.
The FWC has found that a hairdresser who both quit and was told she was fired during a bizarre late-night Facebook Messenger exchange was in fact unfairly dismissed, with the FWC observing there was no reason for it beyond the salon owner's "conspiracy theory".
The FWC has found it reasonably arguable that the NUW is involved in a coordinated approach to involve itself in bargaining at Linfox despite being ineligible to represent its tanker drivers, issuing production orders regarding a non-Linfox NUW delegate who seeks to be a bargaining representative.
