Victoria's public sector nurses and midwives have overwhelmingly accepted a four-year deal that aims to achieve pay parity with their better-remunerated NSW counterparts and secures a further three wage increases in the next-generation agreement.
Unions have today called for a national plan to manage the shift to more ecologically-sustainable power generation, via measures that include an industry-wide multi-employer pooling and redeployment scheme.
The FWC has no power to hear an unfair dismissal claim from an elite junior soccer team's head coach, who received a $6,000 honorarium for his role, because he was a volunteer.
Hourly container movements at Australia's five major ports dropped by 2.9% to 29.7 in 2015-16, but the ACCC, relying on a different measure, claims labour productivity has reached a record high.
An FWC member has criticised the failure of one of his colleagues to properly characterise "crude, lewd and s-xist comments" by a BHP Billiton subsidiary's employee as "homophobic slurs" and rejected out of hand the finding that the conduct was towards the lower end of seriousness.
A senior member of the Federal Court's IR panel has warned that litigation is inevitable if those who draft enterprise agreements use euphemisms to conceal the parties' differences on terms.
The Senate economics committee is due to report today on its review of the "backpacker tax" bills, under which employers will be placed on a public register that the FWO can access to ensure they are complying with IR laws.
A Federal Court judge has dismissed the prosecution of a CFMEU official who did not have a right of entry permit under the Fair Work Act, but was invited onto a construction project by a health and safety representative.
Leading employment law practitioners have predicted it is only a matter of time before Australia sees a test case similar to UK's recent landmark Uber decision which found drivers were employees, not contractors.
The FWO says it will now be "the norm" in the wake of this week's Yogurberry ruling for it to seek orders for franchisors to audit the operations of their franchisees, while it revealed that in a continuation of its pursuit of accessories to Fair Work Act breaches, it is prosecuting a HR manager allegedly involved in maintaining fictitious employment records.
