The number of workers covered by agreements has risen by 36.5% over the past three years, according to the latest triennial FWC general manager's report, while applications to deal with bargaining disputes rose 73.5% over the same period.
The FWC has closely examined the nature of "control" in remote workplaces as a pointer to a worker's employment status, ultimately finding an Australian-based manager for a US-registered charity an employee capable of pursuing an adverse action case.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has revealed in tonight's Budget speech that if the Albanese Government is returned for a second term, it will prohibit non-compete clauses for workers on incomes below $175,000 a year, from 2027.
Slater & Gordon says it "continues to believe" following a forensic investigation that its former interim CPO was not responsible for sending a "malicious" email containing employees' purported salary details and performance scores.
The ASU has lodged a single interest multi-employer bargaining authorisation to force eight Melbourne metropolitan councils to negotiate for a deal covering 7000 local government workers, or up to 10,000 if petitions at a further three councils succeed.
A tribunal has rejected a bid by the NSW Department of Education to block SafeWork from cross-examining a witness and from relying on previously redacted evidence on the basis of public interest immunity.
The FWC has rebuffed an employer's bid to suppress the identities of employees cited in a manager's witness statement for an intractable bargaining case, after highlighting that they had not sought that their conversations or names be kept secret.
A tribunal has ordered a lawyer to pay more than $41,000 of the $371,000 in costs Legal Aid Queensland accrued in defending her "protracted" discrimination and victimisation claims, finding her legal knowledge and lack of supporting evidence justified an order against her.
A FWC member has found it "curious" a lawyer did not take responsibility for the late filing of an unfair dismissal claim when she blamed a worker's failure to prioritise it while focussing on a newborn and her mother-in-law's serious illness.
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