A five-member FWC full bench has decided work value pay rises of up to 28.5% for aged care workers should be staggered, with many to receive half their increase from January and the second half from next October.
Pay rises in private sector agreements eased in the March quarter and plummeted from an unusual spike in the public sector, according to DEWR's latest data.
The FWC has told two drone operators to trim their anti-bullying claims against officers from regulatory authority CASA after emphasising that its jurisdiction does not extend to picking over another body's administrative decisions in isolation.
A freeze has been imposed on big employers applying to self-insure under Comcare while the Albanese Government reviews the compensation scheme's legislative framework, 17 years after a former Labor IR minister imposed what turned into a six-year moratorium on new participants.
The income and compensation caps for unfair dismissal claims are set to increase next Monday, along with filing fees for a range of other applications.
Victoria's public sector nurses are set to decide whether to endorse a pay rise of 28% over four years after rejecting an earlier offer and closing hospital beds, while NSW nurses have handed the Minns Government a "business case" for a quick 15% uplift.
Legislation introduced today by Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke provides two "pathways" for the CFMEU's manufacturing division to demerge from the broader union.
In a decision with broad implications for the disability services sector, a care provider has failed to overturn a ruling that a worker who signed two contracts describing her as an independent contractor is in fact an employee capable of suing it for alleged unlawful dismissal.
FWC President Adam Hatcher will conduct a directions hearing on Friday to consider an SDA bid to lift award junior rates for under-18 workers and abolish them altogether for those 18 and above, with the union arguing that age should not be a criterion for setting pay.
