Superannuation fund directors might have a duty to oppose "aggressive" employer strategies, such as unilateral agreement terminations, that suppress wages and reduce accumulation of retirement income, according to a new report by the Centre for Future Work.
The FWC is seeking feedback by the end of this month on model terms for unpaid family and domestic violence leave in modern awards and whether the proposed entitlement should be extended to perpetrators, while it is giving parties more time to reply to a report on family-friendly work arrangements.
A former HWL Ebsworth partner is pursuing the firm and its managing partner for allegedly discriminating against her by paying her less than male colleagues.
Retailer Coles' substantial size and its consequent access to internal and external HR expertise assisted it in providing procedural fairness to an employee it dismissed for alleged dishonesty, the FWC has found.
The CFMEU has told the Federal Court that significant penalties are required against ABC Commissioner Nigel Hadgkiss for causing incorrect information to be published on union right of entry, and has urged it to consider his unlawful conduct as spanning the full period it remained online.
The High Court has this morning refused a CFMEU bid for special leave to challenge a full Federal Court majority ruling that increased penalties twelve-fold after after accepting that it could not treat a "lawful request" or a party's motivation for taking coercive industrial action as a mitigating factor when determining fines.
The Registered Organisations Commission has completed an investigation into the AWU's Victorian branch and its former secretary Cesar Melhem, after the matter was referred by the Heydon Royal Commission.
A HR manager should not have allowed a company manager to be put forward as a support person for a worker who was under threat of dismissal, the FWC has found.
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash says the taxpayer will pay the legal costs of departing ABCC chief Nigel Hadgkiss, but will not provide a legal indemnity to him.
