Most wage underpayments could be avoided if employers "meaningfully invested" in "regular auditing, proper calibrated payroll and record keeping, and supporting the teams who use them", according to outgoing Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker.
Chevron has moved to quickly put a management offer out to a vote of employees on its Wheatstone platform after weeks of interest-based bargaining talks before the FWC failed to break a deadlock with the Offshore Alliance.
The CPSU says an APSC offer that presumes agencies will approve flexibility requests and stops them capping days spent working from home is "ground breaking", but the union is still preparing to take industrial action as it waits for a "considerably improved" pay offer.
The SDA has hit a major hurdle in its efforts to expand upon an underpayments court victory, the FWC refusing to order Aldi to provide six years of rosters, pay records and timesheets for almost 13,000 employees the union claims might have been shortchanged for work performed outside their shifts.
The Minns Government's pay offer to HSU members in the state's public health system is a "starting point" ahead of future work value cases for higher-paid healthcare workers, according to the union's NSW branch secretary, Gerard Hayes.
The FWC has given coal miner Peabody until Thursday to respond to its suggestion that it adopt "somewhat more neutrally worded" clauses in a proposed agreement that says workers are "required" to work on public holidays.
A FWC full bench has spelled out that it will not extend the term of zombie Australian Workplace Agreements due to be axed on December 7 just because it is sought by both the employer and workers.
Virgin's groundbreaking bid for an intractable bargaining declaration is "the quintessential bargaining scenario which the Parliament would have had in mind when enacting the IBD regime", it claims, while the FWC has allowed the ACTU to intervene in the case.
A senior FWC member in extending time by one day says a hospital security officer could not have been expected to ask a lawyer or psychiatrist he met while on remand to "trawl through his inbox" to find notification that he had been sacked.
