NSW IRC President Ingmar Taylor says after a decade of pay caps depriving the tribunal of the capacity to ensure incomes did not fall behind in real terms, all submissions informing a review of its wage fixing principles are calling for change.
The FWC has ruled that an employee on workers' compensation leave is not eligible for anti-bullying protection because she was absent and not performing work when the alleged bullying occurred.
With "limited take-up" of multi-employer bargaining since its inception last year, a paper presented at the Australian Labour Law Association national conference in Geelong last week says some "technical" amendments would make it simpler and easier to authorise negotiations and make deals.
A general manager found to have "relentlessly" bullied a worker even while he was himself on workers' compensation leave faces possible AFP prosecution after refusing to attend the FWC's hearing of the matter.
Former federal Workplace Relations Minister Chris Evans has been appointed Australia's first Anti-Slavery Commissioner, responsible for improving victim support and helping employers address supply-chain risks such as forced labour and debt bondage.
The AMWU claims in a bid to win coverage of extra classifications at a Queensland mineral field that the AWU has "ignored or failed" to properly service them and left it with the "full burden" of negotiating agreements on their behalf.
The public outcry about multi-employer bargaining during the passage of the Secure Jobs legislation was "massively overstated" in the light of the limited number of cases that have since emerged, but recent reforms might have revived single-enterprise bargaining, according to FWC President Adam Hatcher.
A blowout in FEG scheme processing times, a "human-in-the-loop" AI initiative and no gender pay gap among its employees are among the highlights of DEWR's latest annual report, tabled last week.
The FWC will in about two weeks begin its pilot of a system to screen paid agents before they appear in conciliations, conferences or hearings, its national practice leader for unfair dismissal and general protections cases told a public consultation this week
The Federal Government should consider strengthening court powers to deal with competing class actions and extending existing case management protocols to union or FWO claims, a lawyer says in a paper presented at the Australian Labour Law Conference today.
