Employment Minister Michaelia Cash said last night that she made an offer to the Opposition to split-off into a separate Bill elements of the "four-yearly review" legislation that enable the FWC to overlook technical and minor errors in agreements, after tribunal president Iain Ross twice wrote asking her to urgently secure its passage.
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash says one of her staffers has resigned after admitting he leaked information to the media about the AFP raids on the AWU yesterday.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has identified a greater determination among Australia's courts to punish exploitative employers guilty of misdeeds such as sham contracting and supply chain abuses, according to its annual report.
Embattled Flight Attendants Association national division secretary Andrew Staniforth has taken to social media to assert he is innocent of financial impropriety, ahead of an independent investigator's report which will on Friday determine whether he should be immediately reinstated.
Treasury secretary John Fraser has told a Senate Estimates hearing the department expected to see wages lift in "the next few years", despite the most recent Wage Price Index reflecting the lowest annual growth in its 20-year history.
The Federal Court has tossed out a challenge to an FWC full bench decision, describing confidence in the administration of justice as a "significant factor" in finding Energy Australia's case an abuse of process.
The Fair Work Commission says its failure to meet timeliness targets for agreement approvals is partly due to the delay in passage of the Turnbull Government's legislation that would enable it to overlook minor or technical flaws in proposed deals.
Unions and the Federal ALP have blasted raids by the AFP on AWU offices in Sydney and Melbourne, which appear to be related to donations a decade ago to activist organisation GetUp.
An FWC full bench has refused to grant Coles nightfill worker Penny Vickers access to additional rosters or let her provide updated analysis about the proportion of employees paid less under the 2011 deal than the award.
