The FWC has extended time for a Virgin Australia employee's seven-minutes-late general protections claim after accepting that her "emotionally abusive" domestic relationship that made her "a prisoner in her own home" constituted an exceptional circumstance.
After reaching what it describes as the "most significant" retail deal in the country with one bookstore, RAFFWU has won a protected action ballot order at another book outlet accused by the union of reneging on a commitment to lift proposed wage rates by 4.6% this year.
A "tiny proportion" of applications to terminate enterprise agreements are opposed by unions or any other party, which suggests concerns about the provisions are overblown, according to new research by veteran IR lawyer and policy advisor Steve Smith.
The nexus between low unemployment and rising wages is broken, with the "hydraulic pressure" of a tight labour market undermined by systemic "leaks" and "loopholes", according to workplace relations minister Tony Burke.
A major mining company should have paid untaken sick leave to 20 retrenched employees, the Federal Court has ruled, in a judgment closely examining how the Fair Work Act's high-income threshold applies to annualised salaries.
A FWC full bench that quashed a finding that Deliveroo had an employment relationship with delivery rider Diego Franco has sounded a clear call for a statutory response, while confirming the position of digital platform companies has been "strengthened immeasurably", according to a leading employment law and IR academic.
The Victorian Government's wage inspectorate has charged two Commonwealth Bank subsidiaries with allegedly failing to pay more than $70,000 in long service leave entitlements to 20 former employees and failing to comply with a notice to produce documents.
Qantas has secured new deals with freight pilots and unlicenced aircraft engineers but the threat of turmoil looms, with licensed engineers voting to stop work, ground crew considering it and the FAAA claiming domestic fight attendants are facing ultimatums.
Coopers Brewery workers look set to pocket increases exceeding 6% next year, after the FWC approved its new enterprise deal that pays CPI-based rises in 2023 and 2024, after a fixed increase this year.
Australia's biggest employer group says the forthcoming Jobs and Skills Summit must tackle the "unnecessarily technical and complex" agreement-making process, along with the better-off-overall test.
