Thousands of labour hire mineworkers, airline cabin crew and meatworkers are in line from today for significant pay rises as a result of union same-job, same-pay claims, with the MEU calculating its applications alone will boost wages by almost $130 million a year.
Sacked CFMEU construction division officials have told the High Court their constitutional challenge to Federal Government legislation placing union branches under administration is a stark reminder that "you cannot do indirectly what you are forbidden to do directly".
A FWC full bench will next month hear an Uber driver's unfair contract case, in the first test of the new provisions, a senior tribunal member told the NSW IR Society's Newcastle branch last week.
The former acting principal of a Sydney Islamic school has won a court order fixing costs at $40,000 as she pursues its leadership for allegedly subjecting her to s-x, racial and pregnancy discrimination, including by telling her she should stay home and look after her children.
JobKeeper-like wage subsidies should be part of a government's "toolkit" for future pandemics, but "blanket" early access to superannuation should be taken off the table, according to the independent inquiry into Australia's response to COVID-19.
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.
