As wage stagnation and cost-of-living issues continue to feature in the federal election campaign, a new report shows Australia has experienced the greatest deceleration in real pay growth in the OECD since 2013, despite its relatively strong employment growth and low unemployment, suggesting that policy and institutional factors are the main culprit, rather than market forces.
A former Fortescue intelligence and security principal claims the iron ore mining giant sacked him for complaining about bullying and allegedly unpaid incentives after it wrongly accused him of contributing to a critical media report about its renewable energy business.
The TWU has struck a landmark agreement with food delivery business DoorDash on "core principles" for gig economy work that extends "appropriate" rights and entitlements to drivers and ensures they have a "collective voice" and access to dispute resolution.
In a bid to differentiate itself from the Coalition, Labor is backing a rise in this year's minimum wage case that at least ensures workers don't fall behind the 5.1% increase in the cost of living and has vowed to make a submission to that effect if it takes power at the May 21 election.
The FWC has declined to reinstate a global research company employee found to have been unfairly dismissed despite refusing to participate in a performance improvement plan prompted in part by asking a job interviewee when she intended to have children.
The Greens are proposing to reduce the 13.8% national gender pay gap to below 10% by having the Government ask the FWC to order above-award increases for a decade in four female-dominated sectors of the economy.
The FWC has delayed by a fortnight scheduled strikes at a major aged care provider on the basis it threatens to endanger the "life, personal safety or health, or the welfare" of residents.
In a rare Federal Court ruling on reasonable additional hours, a large employer faces penalties for numerous Fair Work Act and award breaches after being found to have employed a recently-arrived "third-world" migrant on a 50-hour week in which shifts began at 2am.
In a significant ruling on the validity of agreements, a full Federal Court has affirmed that a deal can be approved by the FWC and its terms be enforced even if it is later revealed that it did not meet the necessary legislative preconditions.
The ACTU has responded to the acceleration in consumer prices by raising its minimum wage claim from 5% a year to 5.5%, matching the RBA's latest forecast for mid-year headline CPI.
