The FWC has slapped anti-bullying orders on a gated community's body corporate and its treasurer who taunted on-site caretakers about their claim of "living in misery" over the Christmas period because of unpaid invoices.
BHP is offering workers in its in-house labour hire arm a $5000 sign-on sweetener ahead of a ballot on proposed deals that promise far less than a recently approved BMA agreement, while the union says the subsidiaries should be covered by Labor's proposed "Same Job, Same Pay" laws.
Newly-appointed FWC expert panel members Marian Baird and Mark Cully will serve on this year's crucial minimum wage case bench, as inflation substantially outpaces pay growth and the Reserve Bank continues to warn against the prospect of a wage-price spiral.
In returning a worker to her job and restoring most of her lost pay, finding the policy the worker breached "might make sense to copyright lawyers and some IT specialists, but probably no one else" the FWC has cautioned that "employer policy documents and manuals must be accessible, understandable and reasonable in their terms".
Casuals cannot be "dispensed with" simply by reducing their hours to zero, the FWC has ruled, clearing the way for a worker to proceed with his adverse action claim.
Employers of more than 20,000 workers would have to comply with a mandatory reporting regime on workplace practices that foster "roster justice" and flexible working arrangements, under a key recommendation of today's report by a Senate inquiry into work and care.
CPSU Victoria is pushing the Andrews Government to make a further referral of IR powers to Canberra to give core State public sector employees the right to seek orders from the FWC to stop bullying and sexual harassment.
The ASU is urging members to vote up a new Qantas deal that blocks the outsourcing of ground handling roles but allows the Flying Kangaroo to shift about 850 "senior professionals" onto individual contracts.
The Federal Court is allowing a weight loss surgeon behind a $17 million adverse action and breach of contract case to amend his claim to include alleged contraventions of Queensland legislation, rejecting submissions by his employer and colleagues that it lacks power.
