The MBA is urging the Albanese Government to drop its plan to empower the FWC to deal with "employee-like" work, but says that if it is determined to go ahead, then the new jurisdiction should be confined to digital platform workers.
The FWC will today convene its first annual members' conference in five years, as it prepares for the Secure Jobs bargaining and agreement changes that take effect next month.
Despite warning of an "unbounded period" of entitlement, DEWR has failed to overturn an AAT finding that a real estate salesperson is eligible for FEG payments reflecting sales commissions that did not fall due until properties settled after the 13-week statutory window.
Bench issues reasons for 15% aged care rise; Boland to conduct safety review; Tudehope returns to IR portfolio in Opposition; Entitlement Bill's super provision to remedy shortcoming, says Digest; and Enforceable undertakings for UTS, Uniting Agewell.
A tribunal has dismissed a male lawyer's s-x discrimination case, after he accused a law firm of not hiring him because it favoured female candidates, claiming that he experienced a greater degree of humiliation because of the "very attractive and beautiful" interviewers.
The FWC has ordered a company to compensate a long-serving 72-year-old worker sacked via a text declaring it had made his position "an honorary role", after hearing its general manager felt he had a cultural duty to show respect for his elders and sought to soften the blow.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has played down the significance of FWC president Adam Hatcher questioning whether a perceived big increase in the minimum wage could contribute to further increases in interest rates.
Wall-to-wall Labor governments across mainland Australia provide the opportunity to re-introduce the principle of "safe rates" into the transport industry by the end of the year, according to the new NSW Treasurer, Daniel Mookhey.
The Business Council says the Albanese Government's "same job, same pay" proposal "mandates pay level irrespective of the qualifications, experience, knowledge, service and skills of a worker" and imposes "unreasonable costs and administrative burdens" on businesses.
Facebook posts that "even [critics of] 'wokeness'" would find confronting did not provide a valid reason for a police custody officer's sacking, the FWC has found.
