The FWC has declined to reinstate a global research company employee found to have been unfairly dismissed despite refusing to participate in a performance improvement plan prompted in part by asking a job interviewee when she intended to have children.
The Greens are proposing to reduce the 13.8% national gender pay gap to below 10% by having the Government ask the FWC to order above-award increases for a decade in four female-dominated sectors of the economy.
The FWC has delayed by a fortnight scheduled strikes at a major aged care provider on the basis it threatens to endanger the "life, personal safety or health, or the welfare" of residents.
In a rare Federal Court ruling on reasonable additional hours, a large employer faces penalties for numerous Fair Work Act and award breaches after being found to have employed a recently-arrived "third-world" migrant on a 50-hour week in which shifts began at 2am.
In a significant ruling on the validity of agreements, a full Federal Court has affirmed that a deal can be approved by the FWC and its terms be enforced even if it is later revealed that it did not meet the necessary legislative preconditions.
The ACTU has responded to the acceleration in consumer prices by raising its minimum wage claim from 5% a year to 5.5%, matching the RBA's latest forecast for mid-year headline CPI.
Sydney Water has failed to quash a FWC finding that clears the way for a former employee whose image was used in a suggestive OHS poster to pursue more than $1 million in damages on the basis its botched response forced her to resign.
The RBA is predicting that the wage price index will increase from the current 2.4% annually to 3% by the end of year, but it will be growing at half the forecast year-end headline inflation rate of 6% and remain a long way behind the expected 4.75% rise in underlying inflation.
ACTU leader Sally McManus has asked Prime Minister Scott Morrison to consider removing FWC expert panel member Mark Wooden from the minimum wage review, after his "extraordinary and highly inappropriate intervention" by "insert[ing] himself into the political debate" with media comments on low wage growth.
