Greenway Chambers barrister Ingmar Taylor SC is calling for amendments to the Fair Work Act's requirement that people must obtain permission to be represented by external lawyers, arguing it is wasting time and resources and creating uncertainty.
The Productivity Commission has recommended severing default super fund allocation from the IR system, in its draft report on the superannuation system that confirms industry funds are "systematically" outperforming retail funds by a wide margin.
An FWC full bench has refused to overturn the dismissal of an animal welfare officer who alleged that his colleagues mishandled an investigation into the dumping of three crocodiles at a school.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus has found an unexpected ally for her suggestion there is no problem with circumventing unjust laws, the head of one of the country's biggest employer bodies telling an IR conference he had some empathy with her position.
Victorian Labor Premier Daniel Andrews has pledged to create a new labour inspectorate to police wage underpayments, which will offer a competing state-based jurisdiction to the Commonwealth's Fair Work Ombudsman.
In a decision confronting the issue of alleged "sham" agreements, a full Federal Court has found that proposed terms and conditions must be necessarily restricted when voted up by small employee groups who don't reflect a deal's "occupational scope".
An exploding secondary labour market of people who can't enforce their rights is driving down wages and bargaining power while creating a "tinder box of exploitation", unions have told this year's NSW IR Society conference.
The Australian Federation of Employers and Industries is calling on the FWC to dismiss the Independent Education Union's equal pay claim on behalf of early childhood teachers, drawing on an expert report to attack its use of primary school teachers and engineers as comparators.
