Agreements filed in the FWC in the first fortnight of the year paid a 3.5% average rise, according to the tribunal's latest "real-time" data, while the Reserve Bank is continuing to warn against the risks of a wage-price spiral.
The ROC is probing whether a CFMMEU branch is complying with financial obligations following an investigation that prompted a Federal Court case against its leader, while the watchdog has decided not to pursue the National Retail Association over membership irregularities.
Super funds' revised disclosure regulations overturned; Awards to reflect paid FDV entitlement; BCA's Westacott moving on; and Melbourne Uni hit with second FWO prosecution.
As Telstra next week prepares to defend a Federal Court class action on behalf of employees who refused to comply with its COVID-19 vaccination policy, the FWC has held that it met consultation requirements and "bent over backwards" to ensure fairness before sacking a worker with a moral objection to being jabbed.
Two of Australia's biggest unions are at loggerheads over a push by Woolworths to change the coverage of workers at the supermarket's online fulfilment centres, a move the UWU believes is partly motivated by the retailer's concerns about multi-employer bargaining.
In what might signal a tougher stance under a Labor government, the FWO has commenced its first prosecution of a franchisor for alleged underpayment of workers by franchisees.
A former Coalition Resources Minister has criticised "unjustified vaccine mandates" while introducing legislation to prevent employers using COVID-19 vaccination status to take "adverse action" against an employee or prospective employee.
Fortescue charged over harassment documents; Wesfarmers' near-$5M bill for underpayments; Review into PC s-xual harassment claims; Work and care inquiry deadline extended.
A manager's email to a client suggesting a listed company might be overcharging almost $70,000 a month constituted a valid dismissal reason, as did sending a confidential document to a former employee even though it was discovered post-sacking, the FWC has held.
