Retailer Woolworths Group's underpayments bill has increased by about $75 million to $390 million, after it identified "payment shortfalls" in its hotels and liquor division, it told the ASX today.
The High Court has developed an HR policy boosting support for judges' staff and clarifying obligations, following findings that former trade union royal commissioner and High Court judge Dyson Heydon sexually harassed six associates.
In a significant judgment examining the interplay between employment relationships and employment contracts, the Federal Court has dismissed a major employer's appeal against a ruling it owed a cleaner redundancy pay after reducing her hours from full to part-time.
The FWC has held that TasWater unfairly sacked two workers accused of repeatedly using a workplace messaging system to engage in inappropriate sexual innuendo about female colleagues.
The ASU says it will object to extending a coronavirus-driven variation to the clerks' award because it has been "superseded" by JobKeeper and Fair Work Act changes, dismissing the employer bid as an attack on the award system.
An IR academic who has been documenting systematic underpayments in Australia has rounded on the Government's response, saying the counter-measures it has proposed to widespread wage theft are based on "discredited" theories of deterrence-based law enforcement.
In the FWO's first "contrition payment" extracted from another federal public body, the ABC has agreed to pay $600,000 and enter into an enforceable undertaking after admitting it underpaid 1900 past and current employees more than $12 million.
