A FWC expert panel led by President Adam Hatcher has launched a review of part-time provisions in modern awards, which will look at how such employment should be defined, distinguished from casual work, and how hours are decided on and remunerated, as the Commission foreshadowed in its 2023-24 award review.
The FWC has rejected a host employer's argument that de-boning chickens is specialist work that would fall under the service provision exception, and has made same-job, same-pay orders covering two labour-hire companies that provide workers to a poultry processing plant.
A digital advertising start-up forced its general manager and sales chief to resign by "deferring" his wages for eight months, the FWC has held, clearing the way for him to pursue a general protections case.
The FWC has ordered compensation for an inexperienced FIFO mineworker sacked over her involvement in a dig site mix-up that cost her employer about $200,000 after the dumping of 54 ounces of gold.
The Albanese Government's legislation to protect penalty and overtime rates has been designed to be "simple, fair and workable", Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth told Parliament in her second reading speech this morning.
A poultry processing worker sacked for refusing to vaccinate against COVID-19 has been ordered to pay indemnity costs after a judge found her former employer did not need to defend accusations of religious discrimination and consultation failures.
Labor maintains that its legislation to protect penalty and overtime rates, to be introduced to Parliament tomorrow, will block changes to awards that might make a single worker worse off.
The SDA's bid for supported bargaining orders covering McDonald's workers Australia-wide is set to be challenged in the Federal Court after 18 South Australian franchisees this week asked for a review of last month's FWC decision setting the campaign in motion.
A FWC full bench has cleared the way for an Uber driver to pursue his unfair deactivation case despite his readmission to the platform after six weeks.
