The Albanese Government has today won passage through Parliament of legislation that streamlines choice of super funds when employers are "onboarding" new employees and seeks to prevent advertising of super products during that process.
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 court has fined Woolworths $233,250 for denying three part-time employees standard rosters, guaranteed hours and overtime pay, citing a lack of evidence "at the corporate mind level" and awarding the full sum to the AMIEU to encourage its enforcement work.
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 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.
In a significant judgment on tertiary education sector pay, a full Federal Court has today found that under the academic staff award, a casual lecturer should have been paid for time spent marking assessments not directly related to particular lectures or tutorials.
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.
A senior FWC member has rebuked an experienced Telstra worker for wasting the tribunal's time on a "spiteful" anti-bullying bid based on "pedantic" complaints about his manager.
The National Employment Standards' weekly hours limit is incompatible with FIFO and 24/7 operations because of their reliance on averaged and extended shifts, and the "reasonableness" test is too burdensome, AREEA says in its submission to the NES inquiry.
