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A FWC member has expressed amazement that an employer "pinned" alleged timesheet fraud on an employee when in fact his former manager performed the work.
The Albanese Government should pilot a lower-paying visa subclass for aged care and disability care to plug gaps in publicly funded services, according to the Productivity Commission, which otherwise recommends replacing skill shortage lists with minimum wage thresholds of at least $70,000.
The FWC has lambasted a senior government employee for their "reprehensible" attempts to prompt a witness by sending texts during a remote hearing of an unvaccinated worker's unfair dismissal case.
In what might present another opportunity for the Albanese Government to deliver on its promise to rebalance the FWC, the Productivity Commission says it should empower the tribunal to conciliate and arbitrate gig workers' termination and payment disputes.
A union has won a rare order allowing it to inspect the employee records of a business part-owned by a listed company in search of proof of underpayments.
The Productivity Commission says a review of the Albanese Government's new multi-employer bargaining measures should consider amending the Competition and Consumer Act so the ACCC can play a role.
The Productivity Commission has today recommended the Albanese Government strip back the modern awards objective to seven points and establish an independent dispute resolution mechanism within the FWC for platform workers.
A dumpling chain's HR manager was knowingly concerned in its Fair Work Act contraventions and "did not simply act as a conduit", the Federal Court has held in a liability judgment, finding she also instructed and trained a colleague in a payroll scam using both accurate and inaccurate records.
The Albanese Government is not attracted to "scorched earth" IR policies to address Australia's productivity challenges, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said today, ahead of tomorrow's tabling of the final report of the Productivity Commission's productivity inquiry.
The FWC's minimum wage review should order an increase that exceeds inflation, providing a real wage rise for the lowest paid, according to UWU national secretary Tim Kennedy.
