The ACTU says the FWC should conduct a "comprehensive assessment" of gender-based undervaluation of work, rather than seek to finalise the issue in this year's minimum wage review.
Days after FWC President Adam Hatcher excoriated a paid IR agent for its handling of an adverse action case, the Commission has announced that he will lead a working group aimed at ensuring such representatives act ethically, honestly and in the best interests of clients when appearing before the tribunal.
A judge has given final approval to a confidential settlement in an adverse action case after accepting that a teenager accused of attempting to intimidate the claimant understood how its terms affected him.
A FWC full bench has refused to extend the life of zombie agreements for several Hogs Breath Café franchises that left some workers without penalty rates for almost two decades and has rejected their evidence that bargaining is underway.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has decried a paid IR agent's "misleading and unethical" practices in a case where it failed to inform a worker that the amount agreed to settle his adverse action claim would not cover its fees.
Former ACTU leader Greg Combet will replace former Coalition treasurer Peter Costello as chair of the Future Fund Board of Guardians, necessitating him stepping down from his leadership of the Federal Government's "just transition" agency, Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced this morning.
While major changes to the NSW IR Act that usher in mutual gains bargaining and scrap the State Government's power to cap wages are now in effect, parts of the legislation that re-establish the Industrial Court are yet to be proclaimed.
The Human Rights Commission and the Law Council have voiced major concerns to a Senate inquiry into a Bill designed to protect workers who bring sexual harassment claims from costs orders in most circumstances, but the ACTU says criticisms are "unfounded".
"Working households" experienced cost increases of about 9% over the past year, according to Treasury analysis released today as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed that Labor will reconfigure the Coalition's stage three tax changes to favour low- to middle-income earners.
A veteran employment lawyer is asking the FWC to repel a journalist's freedom of information bid for documents relating to a settled unfair dismissal case, warning that it could "undermine the correct administration of the Fair Work Act" and inflict "irreversible harm" on his client.
