Less than a quarter of private sector employers have an average gender pay gap within the target range, but 56% have reduced their gap, according to expanded, searchable WGEA data from the second year of public pay gap reporting.
The UWU has defeated a federal government attempt to end strikes by Serco employees running immigration detention centres, after the FWC found it not unusual for detainees to climb on roofs, set off fire alarms or endure brief lockdowns, as occurred during the industrial action.
Interested parties have until 4pm next Monday to comment on draft employer and employee surveys commissioned as a key component of the FWC's bid to develop an award clause removing impediments to working from home.
The ETU has lodged an urgent Federal Court bid to challenge FWC orders that suspended industrial action across Sydney's trains network until July, arguing a full bench wrongly treated rail unions as an "undifferentiated whole" and unreasonably advantaged the employers.
Trickle of FWC disputes over RtD; Lattouf leads court's livestream top 40; Victorian police bargaining dispute over after deal voted up; MUA loses appeal in "voluntary" work case.
A FWC employee should have consulted a Commission member before providing incorrect advice that resulted in a worker filing his general protections claim a month late, the tribunal has found.
Qantas short haul pilots have voted up a deal expected to boost incomes by more than 25% over five years by fundamentally changing how they are remunerated, while the Albanese Government has approved Qatar Airlines taking a 25% stake in Virgin.
The Albanese Government is fast-tracking access to the taxpayer-funded FEG scheme for up to 2800 employees of Australia's largest specialty fashion retailer, Mosaic Brands, ahead of the company being placed into liquidation, while the administrators for the Whyalla steelworks will today seek court approval for unions to represent employees at next week's first creditors' meeting..
An employer failed to "adhere to basic standards of decency" when it made an employee on parental leave redundant in an email, without consultation, in "a case that exemplifies the benefits" of having some form of "keeping in touch" system during parental leave, the FWC has found.
A FWC full bench says it suspended industrial action afflicting Sydney's rail network partly to give the RTBU's leadership a chance to "re-establish a greater degree of control" amid suggestions some workers have been going rogue in pushing for a more radical approach.
