Australia's real wages yet to recover to pre-pandemic level, says OECD; Australia near top of economic mobility league table, says PC; University researchers seeking IR survey participants; SA set to mandate sexual harassment training for hospitality workers; and Tasmania might be last state to make industrial manslaughter an offence.
The Federal Court is set to run an eight-month trial of a dedicated national "list" for general protections matters, Chief Justice Debra Mortimer has told practitioners.
The FWC has found an agreement only permits representation for those initiating a dispute, ruling that it must observe "limitations and rights" in dispute resolution procedures that might be "contrary" to usual practice under the Fair Work Act.
A FWC full bench has arbitrated a narrow range of disputed matters including hours and pay in its second intractable bargaining workplace determination, for waste giant Cleanaway, after it found the company withheld information about individual bargaining representatives, undermining the union's claim that certain terms had been agreed.
A four-member FWC full bench has resisted unions' push to insert a detailed "right to disconnect" clause in modern awards, but has also rejected employers' minimalist term, opting instead for a draft provision that sticks closely to the legislative mandate.
A charity ordered to compensate a retrenched financial analyst has been reminded by the FWC that consultation involves "not merely telling a worker" they have been made redundant months after deciding to restructure their team.
The FWC has declined to grant anti-bullying orders to one of its own conciliators after failing to substantiate any of the eight alleged instances of victimisation and intimidation levelled against a former colleague who became her manager.
In a significant decision on FWC powers, a court has found that the Commission can dig into a university's finding that an academic plagiarised a student's work to establish whether it breached its agreement's disciplinary processes.
A FWC presidential member is today training the CPSU and the FWO in using an interest-based approach to employee consultations, using the Collaborative Approaches program spearheaded by current Fair Work Ombudsman Anna Booth when she served as a deputy president of the tribunal.
