The FWC has warned a radiology provider whose HR manager took an "ill-informed" position that it risks a civil penalty and underpayment claims if it requires part-timers to put in extra hours without overtime pay or agreement and fails to put working patterns in writing.
Increasing profits are driving rapidly rising inflation and the RBA's warnings about a return to a 1970s "wage-price spiral" are "inappropriate", according to the Centre for Future Work.
The aged care work value case is likely to be one of the first cases referred to the new expert panels that start exercising their powers on March 6, according to FWC President Adam Hatcher.
Reduced working hours for the same pay makes organisations more productive, increases their revenue, and benefits employees by decreasing stress and burnout, according to the largest-ever four day working week trial.
In the wake of the Albanese Government's recent appointment of a new FWC president, it has a further opportunity to reshape Fair Work institutions with the looming expiry of Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker's five-year term.
A FWC full bench has found that a government business enterprise had a right under the terms of its agreement to dismiss a trainee for failing an exam, overturning a previous decision that found his sacking procedurally unfair.
The WGEA says the gender pay gap has fallen to its lowest point ever at 13.3%, but the ACTU says women "face the biggest fall in real wages in history" and "have little to celebrate".
The FWC is seeking feedback by next Friday on the implementation of its new workplace s-xual harassment jurisdiction, due to come into effect on March 6.
