The Federal Government should consider outlawing wage theft as an anti-competitive practice while also introducing a criminal offence for the worst cases, according to a Senate inquiry on unlawful underpayment.
The Federal Court has approved the $98 million settlement of a class action accusing 7-Eleven of misleading franchisees on profitability and labour costs but will conduct a further hearing on whether to deduct a $25 million commission and legal costs of $20 million.
NSW should establish tribunal powers governing minimum pay and conditions for gig workers while requiring on-demand platforms to reveal the most profitable times to work, a State parliamentary inquiry has concluded.
The FSU has vowed to continue pressuring financial services employers to ditch pay secrecy clauses following last week's decisions by the Commonwealth Bank and Westpac to expunge the obligations from new and existing contracts.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has struck a new enterprise agreement that provides one-off bonuses of 12%, as it moves away from performance-based rewards and seeks to retain employees in the highly-competitive financial services sector.
Striking NSW paramedics and hospital workers will on Thursday add to mounting pressure on the Perrottet Government to ditch its 2.5% cap on public sector pay rises, deliver a significant catch-up increase, update awards and open up productivity-based bargaining.
In what looms as the country's most sophisticated legal challenge to compulsory workplace vaccinations to date, South Australia's Supreme Court will tomorrow begin hearing a case featuring a frozen-out player from the Australian Football League's elite women's competition, a respected vaccine developer and a former federal court judge.
