The FWC full bench hearing the aged care work value case is seeking feedback on its provisional view that pay rates in awards covering the sector's workforce have not been properly fixed, calling also for submissions on background documents by July 22.
Former long-serving SDA national secretary Joe de Bruyn and HR Nicholls Society founding president John Stone are among those recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday honours.
Pilots at the REX airline group will tomorrow start voting on protected action amid rising tensions over the level of "catch-up" pay rises to be included in a new enterprise agreement.
The FWC has reinstated a teacher who delayed her COVID-19 vaccination so she could consult a heart specialist, but lost her job before she could do so.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has indicated that the Albanese Government will respond to the FWC's recent provisional decision favouring paid domestic violence leave by legislating for the entitlement, while he says Labor did not take detailed proposals for reform of the bargaining regime to the election due to the "complexity" of problems and his desire to have a department behind him to "work through all of that sensibly".
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.
