A five-member FWC full bench has decided work value pay rises of up to 28.5% for aged care workers should be staggered, with many to receive half their increase from January and the second half from next October.
Pay rises in private sector agreements eased in the March quarter and plummeted from an unusual spike in the public sector, according to DEWR's latest data.
Employer representatives have told the FWC the busy Christmas and New Year period for the retail industry could mess with a proposed timetable for dealing with the SDA's bid to lift award junior rates for under-18s and scrap them for those 18 and above.
In the wake of IR Minister Tony Burke ruling out inserting reproductive health leave into the Fair Work Act, a new report from the Labor-aligned McKell Institute report is calling on Canberra to legislate 12 days of paid leave in the National Employment Standards, to address the long "overlooked" effects of reproductive health issues, including missed work and employment opportunities.
The FWC has told two drone operators to trim their anti-bullying claims against officers from regulatory authority CASA after emphasising that its jurisdiction does not extend to picking over another body's administrative decisions in isolation.
Victorian public sector nurses and midwives have endorsed a State Government offer for a 28.4% (compounded) wage increase over four years, which takes account of the national gender equity increase foreshadowed in the ANMF's aged care work-value case.
A freeze has been imposed on big employers applying to self-insure under Comcare while the Albanese Government reviews the compensation scheme's legislative framework, 17 years after a former Labor IR minister imposed what turned into a six-year moratorium on new participants.
The FWC has acceded to a construction company's request to be legally represented, after rejecting the CFMEU's argument that the Fair Work Act does not enable a party to interchange permission to be represented by a paid agent with permission to be represented by a lawyer, despite their "stark differences" and the exclusion of paid agents from certain courts.
Academics have told a Parliamentary inquiry into the "digital transformation of workplaces" that well-trained HR and IR professionals will be vital to maximise the benefits of AI, while submissions are due tomorrow on a "deactivation code" for digital labour platforms.
