The FWC says it is meeting revised deadlines and developing new strategies to speed up agreement-processing, but some employers are opting to tie initial pay rises to successful ballots rather than approvals, to avoid short-changing employees.
The FWC has advised an employer to consider tightening its system for employee expense claims, in upholding the dismissal of senior manager for fraudulently claiming more than $70,000 in mileage and other alleged costs
The MUA has warned of a "long negotiation" for new enterprise agreements at the stevedore DP World Australia after it rejected the company's opening gambit as an "objective attack on workers' wages and conditions."
An employer is facing a hefty compensation bill and a $106,000 long service leave payout to a senior executive over its "woefully inadequate" handling of his stoush with an HR manager, after a court found it performance-managed and sacked him for complaining about her insubordination.
The Morrison Government has introduced legislation to crack down on "sharp corporate practices" such as phoenix companies and asset-shifting by employers that are seeking to avoid paying employee entitlements.
The FWC is proposing that employers insert "NES precedence terms" in their agreements to reduce the requirement for undertakings to address substandard provisions.
Discrimination would be outlawed against workers who flout bans on gender-specific language, such as "husband and wife", under a bill introduced to Queensland Parliament yesterday by a Katter's Australian Party MP.
The Senate's year-long Future of Work inquiry has recommended the extension of workplace laws to cover "gig economy" workers and a re-definition of casual employment.
IR Minister Kelly O'Dwyer has blasted a decision to double site allowances on two major Melbourne construction projects as a massive slug on taxpapers.
