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In a decision questioning the value of medical certificates issued over the internet, a senior FWC member has excoriated a Melbourne lawyer after finding he claimed sick days in order to attend the AFL's Gather Round in Adelaide and "inexcusabl[y]" provided false evidence in pursuing his unfair dismissal case.
Catholic school employers have escaped penalties for withholding backpay from two teachers who resigned before new agreements' retrospective pay rises came into effect, a judge finding that the deals' ambiguities contributed to the "honest and reasonable" mistake.
The FWC has in approving a CFMEU-lodged labour hire deal made with two NSW construction workers discussed the circumstances in which small cohort agreements might succeed.
The FWC has published model rules for registered organisations to help them understand and comply with the Registered Organisations Act and other requirements, following a recommendation from the Booth-Hamberger review of RO regulation.
The ACTU is calling for a 4.5% increase to the minimum wage, well above the current inflation rate of 2.4%, to lift the annual full-time rate by $2,143 to $49,770, while Victoria's Allan Government is making the same pitch as its federal Labor counterpart, calling for a real increase in the minimum wage.
The FWO has established a panel of aged care industry employers and unions to oversee what it calls a "collective approach" to policing the sector as it continues a crackdown on facilities, home care providers and gig platforms that underpaid workers at least $40 million last financial year.
Peak employer body ACCI has warned against the FWC handing down an "above inflation" rise in its upcoming Annual Wage Review, while at the same time arguing for "no more than 2.5%" when headline annual inflation currently stands at 2.4%.
The FWC has found a supervisor's "grossly inappropriate" treatment of young subordinates amounted to a significant breach of his obligations and warranted his summary dismissal.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a worker who covertly recorded and shared conversations with colleagues and sent them offensive late-night emails while pursuing old grievances, a tribunal member observing that he "needed to be stopped".
CFMEU administrators who are blocking a FWO attempt to investigate whether the union boycotted an AWU-aligned Indigenous building company must hand over documents after a judge accused them of a "hyper-critical dissection" of a contested notice to produce.
