Employers will be required from July next year to make super contributions within seven calendar days of paying their workers' wages and salaries, after enabling legislation passed Parliament today.
A FWC full bench has rejected Uber's bid to knock out the first substantive test of the tribunal's new gig economy unfair contracts powers, finding a driver has an arguable case that his arrangement with the rideshare giant falls short.
The FWC has refused McDonald's' bid to put on hold the SDA's application for supported bargaining authorisations for more than 100,000 workers across five states and the NT until the Federal Court completes a review next year.
The Offshore Alliance and ETU are up in arms after Bechtel warned them that unless they drop their "intractable" 30% wage demands for the Pluto Train 2 Project by Monday, it will bar them from bargaining meetings and deal only with the AMWU and CFMEU.
The ACTU has told Coalition MPs Barnaby Joyce and Andrew Hastie to "get out of the way" after they sullied what was meant to be bipartisan support for legislation to guarantee paid parental leave for parents of stillborn children, as they seek to link it with late-term abortions.
The Australian Industry Group says that its clerks award WFH proposal is "far less drastic than the unions appear to suggest", in its newly-published response to ASU and ACTU concerns that it might conflict with the new penalty rates legislation and the NES.
Artificial intelligence "has its downsides" but has largely lifted the quality of self-represented litigants' submissions to the FWC, while improving their access to justice, a senior member told last week's NSW IR Society Newcastle branch annual conference
Victoria's Catholic school teachers and support staff have rejected a non-union agreement offer, while the IEU says support is growing for its application for a single interest bargaining authorisation through which it is seeking to secure a statewide deal.
