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.
Nearly half of all household services jobs are now part-time, fueling a trend that has seen part-time work increase more than threefold over the past 50 years, according to the RBA's latest quarterly Monetary Policy Statement.
A court has rejected a worker's claims that he was discriminated against, victimised and vilified because of his Indigenous heritage, noting his colleagues apologised for isolated inappropriate comments and that he was not subjected to less favourable treatment.
The owners of Victoria's Hazelwood brown coal-fired power station and mine have confirmed that workers made redundant when the 50-year old plant shuts down by March next year will receive average redundancy payouts of $330,000.
The committal hearing for blackmail charges against CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch secretary John Setka and his assistant secretary Shaun Reardon is set to be delayed until the middle of next year.
More than 50 construction workers are facing penalties after the Federal Court found they took unlawful strike action when they attended a CFMEU rally at a Perth children's hospital construction site in 2013, but the union says the case is a complete "farce".
The FWO has used accessorial liability provisions to secure substantial penalties across the chain of command of a frozen yoghurt franchise responsible for underpaying four overseas workers.
The Government won’t reintroduce the ABCC and ROC bills to the Senate until it has the numbers to win their passage, Prime Minister Turnbull said today in response to the new uncertainty about the crossbench.
Lawyers for Victorian CFMEU leader John Setka and his assistant Shaun Reardon have today challenged the jurisdiction of the Melbourne Magistrates Court to conduct a committal hearing on blackmail charges.
The meatworkers' union has pledged to "fight on" after the FWC yesterday revoked a majority support determination that on Monday had paved the way for it to start negotiating a dedicated deal for more than 1900 Coles and Bi-Lo supermarkets meat department employees.
