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.
The FWC has given the go-ahead to a scientist's adverse action case despite claims she "played" the employer by obtaining a reference stating she resigned for health reasons, before refusing to sign a release deed and initiating legal action.
