The AAT has confirmed it has no flexibility to extend Fair Entitlement Guarantee deadlines, knocking back a claim lodged two days after the prescribed 12-month limit.
The FWC has found that a combination of three factors, including a "significant" mental illness, justified extending time for an unfair dismissal claim lodged 164 days late by a former Woolworths worker.
The FWC has found a not-for-profit employer unfairly sacked a contracted indigenous cultural heritage officer described as a "very unique peg for an absolutely unique hole" when it failed to adequately discuss alternative roles the umpire conceded were unlikely to exist.
Woolworths claims it has "little prospect" of negotiating a new supermarkets enterprise agreement in the wake of the termination of the deal for rival Coles, arguing the FWC's approach to rosters and other developments have rendered the BOOT practically "unworkable".
The Minerals Council has entered the IR debate with a call to outlaw industrial action over labour hire and contracting-out, sideline unions and make it more difficult to enter workplaces and establish unlawful adverse action.
The Department of Employment has told a Senate inquiry that almost two-thirds of large fast food, retail, hospitality and pharmacy deals pay less than the award for Sunday work.
The FWC has approved an Australia Post deal incorporating a 6%-over-three-years pay rise for about 29,500 employees plus an annual 1% bonus if the company realises profit and delivery targets, after it was overwhelmingly endorsed in every state and territory except Victoria.
New data shows the Fair Work Commission's "triage" process for assessing whether enterprise agreements pass the Better Off Overall Test is resulting in closer scrutiny of workplace deals.
The FWC's 3.3% national minimum wage rise is set to contribute 0.5 percentage points to the aggregate Wage Price Index for the September quarter, in what will be a far larger contribution than in previous years.
The union bid to overturn the cuts to penalty rates in the retail and hospitality industries has been set down for a three-day hearing of a full Federal Court in Melbourne next month.
