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The FWC's annual wage review expert panel has used today's minimum wage ruling to challenge fears about any misalignment with productivity gains, suggesting that the ABS has "likely" underestimated the "true" improvements in the rapidly-expanding healthcare and social services sectors.
The FWC's annual wage review expert panel has today granted a "sustainable" CPI-beating 3.5% rise in all award rates and the national minimum wage, emphasising that now the inflation genie is back in the bottle, it will no longer "defer" taking action to reverse the pandemic-driven reduction in real wages.
Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth's plan to legislate "as soon as possible" to protect award-enshrined penalty rates has prompted the FWC to seek submissions on whether to shelve a major employer bid to insert a conditions buy-out clause in the retail award for workers on as little as $53,680 a year.
A FWC full bench has expressed disappointment a "demarcation dispute" might derail a Sydney Trains multi-deal despite in-principle agreement, as it gives bargaining parties a 5pm deadline to consider its recommendation to resolve an outstanding ETU claim.
A judge has binned the $7.5 million lawsuit of an academic claiming his "oppressor characteristics" made him a victim of a university's diversity policies, observing that while he might have "a very legitimate gripe", industrial laws are not the platform to advance his crusade against "woke ideology".
A FWC bench has granted the MEU a majority support determination for officers at a Glencore monitoring centre after quashing findings that they are excluded by union rules suggesting they are linked to a defunct association said to have evolved into Professionals Australia.
The "labour productivity bubble" that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic can provide lessons for the future, and hybrid working can be more beneficial to productivity than wholly working from home or the workplace, according to a new Productivity Commission report.
The FWC's annual wage review expert panel will hand down its 2024-25 ruling on Tuesday morning, after the newly-returned Albanese Government urged a real increase in the minimum wage and award rates, the ACTU sought a 4.5% rise and ACCI and AIG no more than 2.5% and 2.6% respectively.
A spurned TWU delegate found to have aired false bullying allegations against a co-delegate during a meeting at which he referred to him as "kid" and told him to put his "b-lls on the line" by holding a vote has lost his unfair dismissal case, despite his employer's procedural failings.
