Employer associations support a new call to revisit the Productivity Commission's 2015 recommendation to replace the Better Off Overall Test for enterprise agreements with a no-disadvantage test, but a leading academic has sounded a warning.
A council security guard ruled to have been fairly dismissed may have achieved a different outcome if he had been allowed legal representation, an FWC bench has found.
The ACTU, acting on behalf of seven aviation unions, will today file an adverse action case against Qantas for making the payment of a cash bonus of up to $2,000 contingent on securing new post-wage-freeze enterprise agreements.
A fortnight after deciding not to take compliance action against Uber, the FWO has dropped its Federal Court action against Foodora on the basis it would be "highly unlikely" to garner additional payments for its former workforce or penalties against the company.
New IR Minister Christian Porter has declared that passing legislation that allows for easier deregistration of unions and banning individual officials is the "absolute No.1 priority" in the portfolio.
The FWC has thrown out the unfair dismissal claims of a family accused of running a private school like they owned it and improperly spending more than $1 million on overseas trips, loan repayments and cash payouts while granting themselves substantial "back pay" and bonuses.
The RBA's governor has today warned that under-investment in training since the GFC is now starting to bite employers, while he has also criticised the tendency to characterise part-time jobs as "bad".
An FWC member gave due recognition to the reduction of employees' bargaining power that would flow from him acceding to a DP World bid to extend notice for CFMMEU industrial action from three to five days, according to reasons issued by a full Federal Court today.
