The FWC is seeking feedback within four weeks on its draft online proceedings framework, which outlines how matters can be heard in person, partly online, or fully online, at the discretion of the member.
The FSU is seeking annual pay rises of 6% in bargaining at both Westpac and NAB, arguing the hefty increases are justified by the inflation spike and the major banks' continuing strong profits.
A leading labour law academic has expressed concern that the High Court's recent Rossato ruling "unduly swayed" a senior FWC member who found a casual worker's contract helped establish she had no reasonable expectation of continuing employment, despite having worked every week for 14 months.
Victoria will match the NSW Government's $3000 bonus payments to health workers as it seeks to attract and retain workers during the winter flu season.
IR Minister Tony Burke has told public servants who will form a part of the new Department of Employment and Workplace Relations that he that he wants unfiltered, fearless advice, particularly if the government appears to be heading in the wrong direction.
The ACTU has told the FWC that while the new Labor Government's submission has "repeatedly" referred to increases for the low-paid, the minimum wage panel should resist any temptation to depart from its recent practice of adjusting the NMW and award rates by a "uniform percentage amount".
A 20% pay cut imposed on a general manager while his employer shut its doors due to COVID-19 restrictions breached his contract and did not qualify as a JobKeeper-enabling direction, WA's IRC has held.
The campaign by public sector unions to break state-based pay caps is about to spread to Queensland, with bargaining for teachers and nurses picking up pace ahead of the Palaszczuk Government's budget on June 21.
The leader of the ANMF's West Australian branch, Mark Olson, is stepping down after 24 years in the job and an often mercurial approach, which included taking the view that unions should not "shy away" from the Abbott Government's Heydon royal commission into trade unions.
