The FWC's expert panel has refused a union application for adult apprentices and adults on national training wage rates to receive the $40 a week increase awarded to the lowest-paid in the minimum pay review, but will consider the issue in next year's case, while the central bank in its decision to lift interest rates this afternoon has maintained its view that a tighter labour market will "lift" wages.
The FWC will this morning hear the NSW Government's s424 application to suspend or terminate industrial action at Sydney Trains because it is endangering the population's life, personal safety, health or welfare.
The TWU is set to use its Virgin pilots union amalgamation as a springboard to create a new dedicated division to recruit flight crew across the aviation sector, including Qantas.
In a report warning of the "Uber-isation" of care, think tank Per Capita and a company using employees to provide disability services via an online platform are calling for a review of the implications of digital contracting in the sector.
A proposed new agreement for the Australian Youth Climate Coalition provides substantial upfront pay rises and entitlements to five days paid climate disaster leave, 30 days paid gender affirmation leave and 12% super contributions, while it replaces workplace breastfeeding provisions with "chestfeeding" rights.
A UK national living wage review has found that while the NLW's introduction has not caused job losses, the expected productivity gains have failed to materialise.
It will rarely be appropriate for self-represented workers to run class actions, a Federal Court judge has held while moving to declass a representative proceeding brought by a Wilson Security guard on behalf of FIFO colleagues at the North-West Shelf gas project.
IR Minister Tony Burke has outlined some of the entitlements he would like the FWC to include in the minimum conditions it prescribes for gig workers, while emphasising that it will be up to the tribunal to decide what's in and what's out, but a leading IR academic who developed a state labor government's blueprint for labour hire regulation says the new Government's approach will provide "a limited solution".
