The Catholic Church's IR advisory body is urging the FWC's wage panel to order a 4.5% increase in the federal minimum wage, but says a rise of almost three times that would be required to lift single workers out of poverty, while a range of employer groups are seeking rises of about 2.5%.
The FAAA and the TWU have confirmed they will push for a Virgin Australia employee share program if the airline goes ahead with plans to re-list on the ASX in June.
A 9.2% increase to the national minimum wage and award wages would restore low-paid workers' buying power to pre-pandemic trends without significantly affecting inflation, according to research finding no consistent link between minimum wage rises and inflation since 1990.
The FWC has found a top sales operator made redundant the day before her parental leave started was in fact unfairly dismissed, with her employer apparently transferring into her role its lowest performer "by a significant margin".
The Opposition has vowed that it will not roll back the Albanese Government's same-job, same-pay laws, as new research from the Labor-aligned McKell Institute indicated it could contribute up to $2.556 billion per year to the economy and boost wages by nearly $1 billion a year, significantly exceeding DEWR estimates.
Confirming its approach to striking while arbitration is underway, the NSW IRC has threatened to stop proceedings involving the State's psychiatrists if they go ahead with planned industrial action, in defiance of the tribunal's orders.
After four months of industrial action, Maurice Blackburn employees have won an 11% wage increase over three years - and a bigger 12.5% rise for those on five-figure incomes - along with six days of reproductive leave and the ability to cash out unused health and wellbeing leave.
The FWC has published model rules for registered organisations to help them understand and comply with the Registered Organisations Act and other requirements, following a recommendation from the Booth-Hamberger review of RO regulation.
The ACTU is calling for a 4.5% increase to the minimum wage, well above the current inflation rate of 2.4%, to lift the annual full-time rate by $2,143 to $49,770, while Victoria's Allan Government is making the same pitch as its federal Labor counterpart, calling for a real increase in the minimum wage.
The FWO has established a panel of aged care industry employers and unions to oversee what it calls a "collective approach" to policing the sector as it continues a crackdown on facilities, home care providers and gig platforms that underpaid workers at least $40 million last financial year.
