Just 1% of national system employers received formal requests for flexible working arrangements over the past three years and 40% received informal requests, but they only flatly rejected about 1% of the total, according to a report prepared by FWC general manager Bernadette O'Neill.
Federal Court calling for IR lawyer feedback; Longest low wages growth since early '90s, says RBA; and SPC Ardmona workers win extra time to consider action.
The Fair Work Commission will engage an external "plain language expert" to redraft the Pharmacy Award before it is user-tested in a pilot as part of the tribunal's four-yearly review of modern awards.
Lawyers have told the Productivity Commission that its proposals to end tenure for new FWC appointees and to subject members to performance reviews would undermine the umpire's independence, while raising concern about a suggestion that only non-lawyers should determine matters in the proposed minimum standards division.
At the National Reform Summit in Canberra today, the ACTU will urge the Turnbull Government to adopt measures to boost multifactor and capital productivity, arguing that labour productivity has been growing and "is not the problem".
The Victorian Government has criticised the Productivity Commission's proposal to create a "two-tiered" penalty rate system, saying it is at odds with its overall view that there is no need for wholesale change to the Fair Work Act.
