Inflation has fallen to its lowest rate in more than three years, ensuring recent wage increases remain in workers' pockets, according to new ABS data.
A FWC full bench has refused to axe a cash-strapped employer's long-expired agreement containing above-award leave entitlements, weighing claims it would be otherwise forced to close within a year against concerns the application was a "bargaining tactic" to avoid negotiating a new deal.
NSW public school teachers have voted up a three-year agreement that builds on a "breakthrough" deal last year that lifted wages by 4% in addition to big one-off rises for those at the top and bottom of pay scales.
In the wake of the ACCI pushing to increase the threshold for small businesses from 15 to 25 employees by headcount, the HR Nicholls Society says it should rise to 50 full-time-equivalent employees, while it also wants to abolish awards, restructure the FWC, make the PC responsible for setting the minimum wage, reintroduce AWAs and drop the high-income threshold to about $125,000.
An AMWU delegate sacked for allegedly outing non-union co-workers has been awarded the maximum available compensation after the FWC expressed surprise that his multinational employer's investigation could have been conducted "so badly".
After its resurrection this year, the NSW Industrial Court is starting to hear federal underpayment claims and is aiming to have a "substantial" small claims jurisdiction up and running in six months, modelled on the best aspects of the South Australian and Western Australian employment tribunals.
An employer's failure to give a skipper an opportunity to respond to specific allegations about the circumstances surrounding a charter boat's costly collision with a channel marker did not provide sufficient reason to reverse his dismissal, the FWC has found.
More than 90% of federal public sector employees have not been trained in the use of artificial intelligence despite 41% knowing that it is already being used in their department or agency, a survey has found.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has followed up his recent promise of "genuine engagement" with road transport employers sweating on the TWU's minimum-standards test cases for gig workers and "last-mile" deliveries by asking the Road Transport Advisory Group for more details on consultation timeframes, who it might include in subcommittees and how it "proposes to conduct itself more generally".
The FWC has shifted a regional veterinary surgery, formerly run by Queensland University and with a 12-strong workforce, from a university agreement to the industry award, saving the employer at least $200,000 a year, after unions and employees raised no objections.
