Qantas outsourcing case begins this morning; Minimum wage panel seeks views on delaying increases; Andrew Stewart webinar this month; Men gain lion's share of super tax concessions; and "Disconnect" article updated.
The FWC will hold a conference on Thursday to consider the process of reviewing award casual terms to incorporate the changes flowing from the IR Omnibus legislation.
An IR consultant says a FWC decision ordering his client back to the bargaining table will have a chilling effect by confirming the "Hotel California" nature of a bargaining system in which once employers check in, "they can never leave".
The High Court will next month hear labour hire company Workpac's challenge to a momentous finding that coal mineworker Robert Rossato had an entitlement to paid leave while engaged as a casual on consecutive contracts for almost four years.
The FWC has thrown out a general protections application brought by a Roy Hill warehouse worker who claimed the mining giant used unreasonable performance plans to break him and force his resignation after he declined a settlement offer.
The High Court has rejected a former Coles worker's special leave application to appeal a finding that the FWC is entitled to establish whether a worker was sacked, if their employer argues otherwise, before a general protections dismissal dispute application can proceed.
The Morrison Government hopes to have legislation drafted by the end of June to implement the Jenkins sexual harassment report recommendations it agreed to today, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said today.
The Morrison Government says it has adopted the 55 recommendations "wholly, in part, or in principle" in Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins' landmark report on sexual harassment.
Before workers lodge casual conversion disputes, they should discuss the issue at the workplace level, according to new advice from the Fair Work Ombudsman.
