An aged care provider must compensate a caterer after providing insufficient warning that failing to wear masks correctly could lead to summary dismissal, the FWC has found.
Unions have today told the FWC's minimum wage panel that their biggest concern is that low-paid workers will go "further backwards" in the coming year due to continuing inflation and price increases.
An unregistered union to rival the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance and "reimagine" the Australian Journalists Association will launch within weeks, with the founder of the fast-expanding "red unions" claiming COVID-19 lockdowns boosted group membership to 17,000.
Consumer prices are now rising at more than double the pace of private sector rates of pay excluding bonuses, which increased by 2.4% annually in the March quarter, unchanged from the December quarter, according to the ABS.
An unvaccinated hospital worker's decision to covertly record her summary sacking via Zoom added to the list of reasons why it should be upheld, the FWC has found.
The Coalition has promised that if it is returned on Saturday, it will increase the efficiency dividend imposed on public sector agencies, forcing them to look for savings of $2.3 billion over four years.
The Morrison Government has declined to endorse the FWC's provisional view extending 10 days' paid domestic leave to about 2.6 million award-covered workers, a decision partly based on evidence that it is an "emerging standard" in bargaining and over-award arrangements.
An experienced tribunal member failed to properly apply the statutory test for assessing unfair dismissals before ordering the reinstatement of six waterfront shift managers, a FWC full bench has found.
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".
