As the NSW Minns Labor Government gears up for a major expansion of long service leave entitlements that will include portability for gig workers, IR Minister Sophie Cotsis says it has secured a record fine against Mosaic Brands for systemic LSL underpayments.
A FWC full bench has rejected a farmworker's bid to scrap casual overtime award rates she claims prompted an employer to sideline her during a peak harvest period because she reached the maximum ordinary hours.
The FWC has rejected a union bid to bill an aged care provider 15 minutes' overtime for workers required to have rapid antigen tests before each shift, but held that the employer "could and should have done more" to clarify its position.
A tribunal has ordered a disability support service to pay a worker $10,000 damages and three months wages, after it failed to engage her because of her disability.
A Queensland LNP senator has used a Senate Estimates hearing to grill DEWR secretary Natalie James over her total remuneration package of $845,650 and why she could not remember how much she is paid when asked.
A two-year pay freeze is set to be imposed on NSW politicians earning more than a base salary and the State's high-earning bureaucrats as the Minns Labor Government vows to redirect the savings to "essential service" workers such as teachers and nurses.
The ACTU has taken aim at BHP, Qantas, Qube and CIMIC in a paper warning that employers will continue to exploit outsourcing "loopholes" to suppress wages unless Same Job, Same Pay measures extending to internal labour hire subsidiaries are passed into law.
A new review has urged the Albanese Government to increase the number of entities required to lodge modern slavery statements, with penalties introduced for failing to meet reporting standards.
Many employers are still scrambling to work out what the next raft of Secure Jobs changes will mean for them when they take effect next Tuesday and fear being "caught by surprise", according to the Ai Group, while the FWC has added a series of videos to its information packages on the amendments.
The former contracts manager of an ASX-listed mining company has been ordered to pay half his former employer's costs in defending an appeal against a judge's decision to strike out most of a general protections claim filed as the company pursues him for allegedly earning "secret profits".
