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FWC Deputy President Bernadette O'Neill will oversee the new system of expert panels for pay equity and the care and community sector, the tribunal's acting president announced today.
The FWC has tentatively listed a March hearing to deal with a RAFFWU bid to axe Apple's 2014 agreement, which claims that reverting to the retail award will strengthen workers' conditions and bargaining position and accuses the $3 trillion company of treating permanent employees like casuals.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has referred hospitality company Mantle Group's HR manager to the Australian Federal Police for possible criminal prosecution after the tribunal found he deliberately provided false or misleading information about a substandard agreement that allowed the employer to ask workers to perform voluntary additional hours without penalty rates.
The Albanese Government will soon introduce further IR legislation to include superannuation payments in the National Employment Standards (NES), clarify coverage of temporary migrant workers and ensure stronger access to unpaid parental leave.
The Committee for Economic Development of Australia has urged employers to formalise access to flexible work as part of a national effort to address high levels of occupational gender segregation.
Qantas has questioned whether there could ever be an instance where employers can lawfully outsource work if the High Court rejects its challenge to a ruling that it took adverse action against 2000 former ground crew employees when it shunned a TWU in-house tender in favour of an external bid.
A judge has been forced to pick apart a full court's remittal order before determining that he must rehear a worker's adverse action case afresh rather than merely considering "updated" evidence.
The AWU has warned that Woodside's HR team faces a "learning curve" after the union yesterday won a hard-fought majority support determination forcing the energy giant to the negotiating table with its offshore platform employees for the first time in more than three decades.
A State corporation, in the face of medical evidence, lacked the discretion to deny extra sick leave to a worker with a bad leg break that it believed didn't meet the definition of a serious long-term injury, the FWC has found.
