Fair Work Australia's first minimum wage ruling, which increased award rates by $26 a week, is one the AFPC could have made, according to its former head Professor Ian Harper, while Melbourne University's Professor Mark Wooden has argued that the June decision will almost certainly restrict the growth of low-paid jobs.
Fair Work Australia has found that a proposed agreement's coverage can satisfy the Fair Work Act's "fairly chosen" test even if it exposes a subgroup within the workforce to disadvantage due to the "tyranny of the majority", but has questioned why the AWU accepted the deal.
Health workers in Queensland and Western Australia are ramping up the pressure on their governments for wage rises that equal or exceed the rising cost of living in the states.
FWA has ordered the reinstatement of an employee sacked on suspicion of hitting a roller door with a forklift and not reporting it, despite his employer, Coles, arguing the incident destroyed the trust between the parties.
Unions call on WA Government to release Amendola report; Kearney hopes for 25% union density in three years; ANF predicting 200,000 members by end of year; and Adjournment likely in Tribe case.
A high-profile former managing director and senior public servant has won damages of more than $900,000 after a court rejected his employer's claims that he engaged in gross negligence and serious misconduct that warranted his summary dismissal.
Mission Australia conducted a "fatally flawed" investigation that led to the sacking of a manager after she had been accused of intimidating an employee she supervised, FWA has found, while in another ruling the tribunal upheld a dismissal by Qantas after rejecting arguments that an employee's after-work assault of a colleague wasn't sufficiently connected to his employment.
