A full Federal Court has cast doubt over a $40 million underpayments case after ruling that a FWC presidential member and a bench led by president Adam Hatcher failed to properly consider an employer's arguments about the improbability of penalty rates not already being wrapped up in loaded rates paid under two agreements.
The Albanese Government has signalled after a tripartite meeting that it is moving quickly on key IR commitments ahead of Parliament's resumption next month, potentially opening the way for new Greens workplace relations lead Senator Barbara Pocock to push for progress towards a four-day working week and reproductive leave.
A FWC member has refused to recuse herself, after a worker likened her advice to an alleged bully during a conference to helping a s-xual assault perpetrator escape justice.
The FWC's annual wage review expert panel has used today's minimum wage ruling to challenge fears about any misalignment with productivity gains, suggesting that the ABS has "likely" underestimated the "true" improvements in the rapidly-expanding healthcare and social services sectors.
The FWC's annual wage review expert panel has today granted a "sustainable" CPI-beating 3.5% rise in all award rates and the national minimum wage, emphasising that now the inflation genie is back in the bottle, it will no longer "defer" taking action to reverse the pandemic-driven reduction in real wages.
Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth's plan to legislate "as soon as possible" to protect award-enshrined penalty rates has prompted the FWC to seek submissions on whether to shelve a major employer bid to insert a conditions buy-out clause in the retail award for workers on as little as $53,680 a year.
A teacher is claiming that her employer breached her right to disconnect when it asked her to respond during the school holidays to a series of allegations against her, before it expelled her.
A FWC full bench has expressed disappointment a "demarcation dispute" might derail a Sydney Trains multi-deal despite in-principle agreement, as it gives bargaining parties a 5pm deadline to consider its recommendation to resolve an outstanding ETU claim.
A judge has binned the $7.5 million lawsuit of an academic claiming his "oppressor characteristics" made him a victim of a university's diversity policies, observing that while he might have "a very legitimate gripe", industrial laws are not the platform to advance his crusade against "woke ideology".
