Former FWC vice president Graeme Watson refused to share with other members of a full bench the conclusion of his decision on the ACTU's domestic violence clause claim, an internal memo released by the tribunal's president has revealed.
New Federal Court judges; Bullying case allowed to proceed; FWC targets 10 more awards for plain language treatment; Nurses turn to people power to fight penalty rates proposal; and TriCare yet to cut conditions following agreement termination, says union.
Victoria's public school teachers have won a 14% pay rise and an extra four annual non-teaching "planning" days under a four-year deal that also boosts principals' pay by 17% and provides permanency for at least 7,500 contract teachers and support workers.
NSW IRC member Peter Newall has lavished praise on parties to a new industry rates determination that started in bitter dispute and ended in mutual celebration, after progressing in the most "sophisticated" manner he'd seen in more than two decades in IR.
The Turnbull Government and employers have told the FWC that it has no powers to use take home pay orders to ease the "hardship" to employees from the planned reduction in Sunday penalty rates, while the Opposition says its 2013 change to the modern award objectives was never intended to be used to erode the safety net.
The Coles Supermarkets employee seeking to terminate the retailer's 2011 agreement has today asked the FWC to put parent company Wesfarmers' chief financial officer Terrance Bowen on the stand to explain its alleged failure to comply with directions to provide rosters essential to the case.
A full Federal Court has upheld a procedural decision to strike out an amended statement of claim in dismissing CFMEU's appeal alleging BHP Coal took adverse action against miners when it engaged a contractor with a cheaper workforce.
A European Union discrimination ruling on an employer's decision to outlaw wearing Islamic headscarves at work highlights vast differences between it and Australia's social and legal context, according to Monash University senior lecturer Dominique Allen.
Four options that have been proposed to protect current Sunday workers from reductions in penalty rates will damage employers, employees or both, according to Australia Institute's Centre for Future Work.
