The head of the peak recruitment industry body has told the NSW IR Society's annual conference he would like to see a national labour hire scheme to help knock out dodgy providers, but called for laws that are targeted, "like treating cancer", rather than scattergun "radiation therapy".
The FWC has described a zombie deal that enabled a hospitality company to avoid paying workers penalty rates for 22 years as a "disgrace" and has criticised the employer for shifting some workers onto a new agreement that "could never satisfy the BOOT".
A FWC full bench has today come to a provisional view that there should be an award entitlement to 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave and is seeking the Federal Government's view on whether it would incorporate such a provision in the National Employment Standards.
The Opposition says assistant superannuation Minister Jane Hume has belled the cat with her admission that the Morrison Government's election plan to give first home buyers early access to up to $50,000 of their superannuation will push up prices.
The poor prospects of consumers mobilising behind food delivery workers to secure minimum hourly rates and conditions means it has to be addressed by the legal framework, an academic has told an IR conference, while Ai Group chief executive Innes Willox says the Federal Government needs to drive regulation of the gig economy.
A former Greenwoods & Herbert Smith Freehills partner is suing the advisory firm for $13 million after claiming that it constructively dismissed him for questioning major client Lendlease's "aggressive" approach to tax on several projects.
After a wave of s-xual harassment and assault coming to light at remote mine sites, the FWC has told Rio Tinto it should conduct a "proper" investigation of what appears to be s-xual harassment of a former employee almost five years ago, but has ruled it has no power to make anti-harassment orders because he is no longer working for the resources giant.
Agreement approvals have almost halved in the space of about a decade, according to the latest three-yearly FWC general manager's reports, while almost 60% of the 12,300 endorsed in the most recent reporting period contained undertakings.
It would be "most logical" for Labor if it takes power on May 21 to create a Fair Work court to sit alongside the FWC and deal with wage theft, discrimination and more, according to an employment law and IR academic who says this might also enable it to "rebalance" appointments.
