Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has played down the significance of FWC president Adam Hatcher questioning whether a perceived big increase in the minimum wage could contribute to further increases in interest rates.
Wall-to-wall Labor governments across mainland Australia provide the opportunity to re-introduce the principle of "safe rates" into the transport industry by the end of the year, according to the new NSW Treasurer, Daniel Mookhey.
The Business Council says the Albanese Government's "same job, same pay" proposal "mandates pay level irrespective of the qualifications, experience, knowledge, service and skills of a worker" and imposes "unreasonable costs and administrative burdens" on businesses.
The FAAA says Qantas domestic flight attendants' overwhelming endorsement of planned pre-Christmas strikes changed the Flying Kangaroo's approach to bargaining and helped secure two newly-minted deals, while it is now turning its attention to how the proposed Same Job, Same Pay measures might reverse employer strategies that have undermined pay and conditions in the sector.
Facebook posts that "even [critics of] 'wokeness'" would find confronting did not provide a valid reason for a police custody officer's sacking, the FWC has found.
A senior Treasury Department official says the Federal Budget's forecast that inflation will drop back to 2% to 3% by mid-2025 assumes the FWC will make a minimum wage ruling that "broadly proxies" last year's increases.
The Federal Court will weigh into a stoush between Qantas and the AIPA over whether the union is unreasonably withholding permission to allocate newly-recruited pilots to its A380 super-jumbos, with the FWC staying a similar dispute over the airline's ability to appoint them if it already has enough bids from its current cohort of more senior flight crew.
Private sector rates of pay increased to 3.8% annually in the March quarter, up from 3.6% in the previous three-month period, according to the ABS, but relatively weak public sector rises have restricted the economy-wide movement to 3.6% in trend terms, about half the rate of inflation.
New NSW Labor upper house member and former IR academic Sarah Kaine has used her inaugural parliamentary speech to decry the "cult of individualism" that has led to the loss of labour market safety nets, while hailing the recent political shift towards restoring workplace "dignity".
The WA Court of Appeal has thrown out a nursing assistant's challenge to a judge's rejection of her $750,000 defamation claim, which she brought against her employer because a registered nurse accused her of saying "I hate working with Africans".
