Newly-released university research highlights the precarious position of interns under labour law, and recommends the creation of a hybrid classification that would give them some protections while retaining their attractiveness to employers.
New appointees Deputy President Val Gostencnik and Commissioners Leigh Johns and Nick Wilson were formally welcomed to the Fair Work Commission in a ceremonial sitting headed by President, Justice Iain Ross, in Melbourne this morning, with Workplace Relations Parliamentary Secretary Jacinta Collins congratulating them on behalf of the government.
An employer has failed in its bid to knock out an employee's adverse action claim because it didn't specify the workplace right he had been exercising when sacked, with the FWC ruling it was not its role to make a binding threshold determination.
WA minimum rates up by $18.20; Visy accountant clears one jurisdictional hurdle, falls at the next two; Only private use of company car allowance counts towards high income cap: Tribunal; FWC to release draft fair hearing practice note next week, says Ross; FWC to hear evidence on retail junior rates in July; FWC seeks feedback on minimum wage determinations; and Video and slides now available for Mark Bray workplace relations lecture.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected a challenge by United Voice to the approval of an agreement, holding that the employer had validly used the same electronic system as it did for payslips to notify employees about the proposed agreement and ballot.
A new study shows that nearly half of Australia's managers check their office emails when away from work at least a few times a day, and that a majority of the nation's workers have the capacity to do this anywhere and anytime.
Court says dress code not a "requirement"; Victorian Government appeals building code decisions; Queensland ETU compares Newman to Hitler; and $11,000 adverse action penalty for carpet cleaner.
Former business leader Heather Ridout, union leader Jennie George and long-serving AIRC member Paul Munro have all been recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday honours list.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that an enterprise agreement clause allowing for the pre-payment of annual and personal leave in a "loaded" rate contravenes the NES, preferring a Federal Court judge's view over that of its own full bench.
