New university research presented at an IR academics conference in Canberra debunks the notion that reducing weekend penalty rates in the retail sector would mainly affect student workers who don't rely on the income to the same extent as other employees.
As United Voice awaits feedback on its equal pay claim for childcare workers and early childhood educators, members in about 30 long day centres will stop work at 3.20pm on International Women's Day to signify the time women "effectively start working for free" due to the nation's gender pay gap.
The Turnbull Government has confirmed it will make a submission to the Fair Work Commission on how to handle the transition to lower penalty rates in the retail and hospitality sectors.
The Federal Court has found the CFMEU and 10 of its officials engaged in unlawful industrial action when they coordinated mass strikes across multiple Kane Constructions sites in 2014, temporarily shutting down projects across Melbourne and Geelong.
The FWC has stymied a mining employer's strategy to win support for an enterprise agreement that cut wages and conditions for new employees by offering existing workers common law contracts that maintained their entitlements.
An FWC full bench has refused to overturn the termination of the agreement for the Loy Yang power station and coal mine, after it accepted that the company's commitment to extend employment protections to three years compensated for an error in the initial tribunal ruling.
The Fair Work Ombudsman is still working through store visits and audits of the Domino's pizza chain after allegations that it has underpaid workers, the watchdog has told a Senate Estimates hearing.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull wants the Fair Work Commission to phase-in the planned cuts to some Sunday penalty rates over a period of years, to ensure that workers' take-home pay is protected, while the tribunal has timetabled the next stage of the penalties case.
Sacking a transit officer for "excessive force" when he used capsicum spray on a threatening 12-year-old boy was unfair because the employer should have considered demoting him instead, a tribunal has found.
