The highly-orthodox IMF has told the RBA's annual research conference that it is "hard to find" recent wage-price spirals across advanced economies and that pay acceleration "should not be seen as a sign" that the corkscrew feared by the central bank "is taking hold", in a session in which new board member and former FWC president Iain Ross led discussion.
A judge has told an employment and IR forum that the Federal Circuit and Family Court's small claims jurisdiction is an "area to watch" in the light of a five-fold expansion of its compensation cap to $100,000, "fast outcomes" and its ability to determine casual conversion disputes.
The Disability Royal Commission, in its report today, has recommended a registration scheme potentially incorporating a definition of a "disability support worker" and portable training and leave entitlements, while also pushing for an award-variation bid for equal remuneration orders.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a mineworker for failing to disclose his use of prescription medicinal cannabis on his days off, despite the fact he passed all drug tests and left a 32-hour buffer before the start of his working weeks.
New DEWR data has undercut RBA warnings about the risks of a wage-price spiral, indicating that private sector bargained wage growth remains anchored below 4% a year.
In what is believed to be the first workplace breastfeeding discrimination ruling, a tribunal has found that a KFC franchisee indirectly discriminated against a worker when it told her to express milk in a tent, within a storeroom with no door.
The FWO is prosecuting the University of NSW over payslip and record-keeping practices it claims are so poor it cannot verify self-reported underpayments and so grave they warrant sanctions that multiply penalties ten-fold for serious contraventions, alleging HR and ER employees knew of and implemented the systems.
The process of obtaining an entry permit should be "no more than onerous" than that for a passport unless there are "good grounds" for suspecting the applicant might not be a fit and proper person, according to the Booth-Hamberger review of regulation of registered organisations.
The Albanese Government has today declared its in-principle support for an A-G Department review's recommendation to extend "enhanced privacy protections" to private sector workers, allowing employers to collect information "reasonably necessary to administer the employment relationship", but preventing them misusing it.
