An IR academic has cautioned against Productivity Commission suggestions that a review of new multi-employer bargaining measures should consider giving the ACCC a role and says he is "surprised" at questions about the public benefit of lifting workers' pay.
Oxfam to trial 30-hour, 4-day week; Stewart to address seminar/webinar on workplace equality changes; Webinar to weigh recent adverse action developments; Vale former workplace tribunal member Norman Mansini; UK inquiry to examine human rights protection in workplace; and CCIQ rebrands as BCQ.
The Federal Court is continuing to order CFMMEU officials to pay penalties out of their own pockets, rejecting arguments that two first offenders and one organiser no longer employed by the union should have their fines suspended.
In a significant ruling on its powers, the NSW IRC will reconsider a nurse's victimisation claims after overturning a finding it lacked the power to order that a disciplinary warning be removed from her file.
A FWC member has expressed amazement that an employer "pinned" alleged timesheet fraud on an employee when in fact his former manager performed the work.
A Victorian restaurant has asked the High Court to hear a constitutional challenge to the State's wage theft laws, arguing that the nation's first criminal prosecution for allegedly breaching the provisions is invalid.
A court has found that a wife employed by her barrister husband can seek compensation for unpaid wages, because the claim is based on their employment relationship, not their marital relationship, but she cannot claim wages from more than six years ago.
The Albanese Government should pilot a lower-paying visa subclass for aged care and disability care to plug gaps in publicly funded services, according to the Productivity Commission, which otherwise recommends replacing skill shortage lists with minimum wage thresholds of at least $70,000.
The NSW ALP's election pledge to scrap the Perrottet Government's public sector wage cap carries "significant risks", according to the State's Parliament Budget Office.
The FWC has lambasted a senior government employee for their "reprehensible" attempts to prompt a witness by sending texts during a remote hearing of an unvaccinated worker's unfair dismissal case.
