The Turnbull Government and employers have told the FWC that it has no powers to use take home pay orders to ease the "hardship" to employees from the planned reduction in Sunday penalty rates, while the Opposition says its 2013 change to the modern award objectives was never intended to be used to erode the safety net.
The Coles Supermarkets employee seeking to terminate the retailer's 2011 agreement has today asked the FWC to put parent company Wesfarmers' chief financial officer Terrance Bowen on the stand to explain its alleged failure to comply with directions to provide rosters essential to the case.
A full Federal Court has upheld a procedural decision to strike out an amended statement of claim in dismissing CFMEU's appeal alleging BHP Coal took adverse action against miners when it engaged a contractor with a cheaper workforce.
A European Union discrimination ruling on an employer's decision to outlaw wearing Islamic headscarves at work highlights vast differences between it and Australia's social and legal context, according to Monash University senior lecturer Dominique Allen.
Four options that have been proposed to protect current Sunday workers from reductions in penalty rates will damage employers, employees or both, according to Australia Institute's Centre for Future Work.
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash has today made three appointments to the Fair Work Commission, with two of them from employer association backgrounds.
FWC President Iain Ross has refused the NTEU's bid for a full bench to hear Murdoch University's request to terminate its enterprise agreement, which the union claims is a "test case" that will affect up to 20,000 Western Australian higher education employees.
After what the FWO says is the first judicial review of one of its compliance notices, the Federal Circuit Court has found that a cook engaged at a Hindu temple was underpaid because he was wrongly classified as a priest under his employment contract.
