The Fair Work Ombudsman is taking a labour hire company to court for unlawfully deducting $500 fines from migrant workers' pay when they breached its drug and alcohol policy.
A Senate inquiry is inviting submissions on a Bill designed to ensure the Albanese Government's funding for a 15% work value pay rise for early childhood educators is passed on to the workers while avoiding major fee hikes, but a legislation scrutiny committee has questioned a lack of "oversight".
The FWC has granted a supported bargaining authorisation that boosts an IEU push for a 25% pay rise for teachers in more than 100 NSW preschools, while employers told the tribunal the Fair Work Act changes have finally put them in a position to negotiate.
Unions are calling on Tasmania's Rockliff Liberal Government to boost its investment in public sector pay, as a report reveals public servants in the State are earning nearly $5700 less than their mainland counterparts and are worse off than 13 years ago.
NSW nurses and midwives have defied a tribunal's anti-strike orders, telling its members the State Government has left them with "no choice but to fight".
The FWC has given distribution giant Metcash and its on-hire labour providers six weeks to say whether they will oppose a SDA and UWU claim for same-job, same-pay orders locking in annual pay rises of up to $12,700.
A self-represented on-hire mineworker looks likely to win same-job, same-pay orders for labour hire employees at South32's Cannington silver, lead and zinc mine in Queensland, after labour supplier TP Human Capital told the FWC it would not oppose it.
The FWC has moved a step closer to curtailing the lowest pay classification in awards from January 1, inviting comment on draft determinations that ensure it is used only for a short period of induction and training.
