The Secure Jobs amendment's "incredible broadening" of access to arbitration when bargaining becomes deadlocked is a "massive change" that could have a "really, really significant effect" if the FWC is willing to use it, and could play a significant part in reversing the last decade's bargaining decline, according to an eminent IR and employment law academic.
A dumpling chain's HR manager was knowingly concerned in its Fair Work Act contraventions and "did not simply act as a conduit", the Federal Court has held in a liability judgment, finding she also instructed and trained a colleague in a payroll scam using both accurate and inaccurate records.
The Albanese Government is not attracted to "scorched earth" IR policies to address Australia's productivity challenges, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said today, ahead of tomorrow's tabling of the final report of the Productivity Commission's productivity inquiry.
The FWC's minimum wage review should order an increase that exceeds inflation, providing a real wage rise for the lowest paid, according to UWU national secretary Tim Kennedy.
The one in every six workers who took up the Morrison Government's invitation to withdraw their super during the pandemic mostly took the maximum $20,000 or their whole account balance, tended to spend the windfall on gambling and consumer items, and cut their retirement income by $120,000 in today's dollars, according to a new academic study.
The CPSU will seek a 20% pay rise over three years plus potential cost of living adjustments and the scrapping of any cap on how many days federal public servants can choose to work from home as part of a service-wide log of claims it will hand to the APSC at the end of the month.
NSW Opposition Leader Chris Minns has hedged over whether his pledge to scrap the State's public sector wage cap will lead to higher pay increases than those awarded under the Perrottet Government.
A full Federal Court has more than halved fines imposed on the CFMMEU for picketing a crane company over a sacked delegate, while also binning orders requiring the delegate to personally pay a $3500 penalty despite it not being part of the case against him.
Multi-year enterprise agreements, flaws in the "standard" Wage Price Index measure and public sector pay caps partially explain recent low wages growth, which would otherwise have been up to one percentage point higher last year, according to new university analysis.
The FSU is calling on CBA workers to endorse an "ambitious" log of claims that includes trialling a 30-hour working week and banning further outsourcing, after a survey highlighted concerns about the cost of living, job security, understaffing and workloads.
