Unions have today seized on mining employer group leader Steve Knott endorsing former Howard Government frontbencher Nick Minchin's 2006 declaration that Work Choices didn't go far enough.
Higher education employers have asked a FWC full bench to interpret the new limits on fixed term contracts before it considers amending the industry award to accommodate them, while flagging that it might be more efficient to refer that issue to the Federal Court.
The CFMEU manufacturing division is seeking to have its demerger application considered by a full bench before the end of the year, it told a hearing this afternoon.
A union-commissioned academic report has linked "invisible skills" exercised by childcare workers with the gender-based undervaluation of their work, but employers have told a five-member FWC full bench that this unseen expertise is already recognised in the industry award.
A FWC full bench is seeking feedback on its provisional view on phasing-in of aged care nurse work value pay rises of up to 25.5%, starting in January next year.
FWC timetables WFH case; Ombudsman increasingly using social media to spread message; FWC launches new animated "explainers" developed with watchdog; and FWO seeks to bring ladder-climbing organiser back to earth.
A key feature of a Bill designed to ensure funding for a 15% work value pay rise for early childhood educators could prevent some employers from accessing funding and passing on the intended increases, the Australian Industry Group has told a Senate inquiry.
Listed services giant Ventia has been ordered to pay $25,000 compensation after failing to persuade the FWC it had reason to sack a senior employee it claimed divulged commercially sensitive information to its former national hospitality and catering manager over a lunchtime catch-up.
The head contractor on Queensland's largest infrastructure project has failed to win FWC orders to compel hundreds of subcontractors to cross CFMEU picket lines, with the tribunal finding their no-shows did not amount to unprotected action.
The crucial full bench same-job, same-pay test case on whether BHP's in-house labour suppliers are providing labour or a service is likely to be heard by a full bench for a fortnight starting in the second half of January, according to FWC President Adam Hatcher.
