A FWC full bench has refused to extend the life of zombie agreements for several Hogs Breath Café franchises that left some workers without penalty rates for almost two decades and has rejected their evidence that bargaining is underway.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has decried a paid IR agent's "misleading and unethical" practices in a case where it failed to inform a worker that the amount agreed to settle his adverse action claim would not cover its fees.
Former ACTU leader Greg Combet will replace former Coalition treasurer Peter Costello as chair of the Future Fund Board of Guardians, necessitating him stepping down from his leadership of the Federal Government's "just transition" agency, Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced this morning.
While major changes to the NSW IR Act that usher in mutual gains bargaining and scrap the State Government's power to cap wages are now in effect, parts of the legislation that re-establish the Industrial Court are yet to be proclaimed.
The Human Rights Commission and the Law Council have voiced major concerns to a Senate inquiry into a Bill designed to protect workers who bring sexual harassment claims from costs orders in most circumstances, but the ACTU says criticisms are "unfounded".
"Working households" experienced cost increases of about 9% over the past year, according to Treasury analysis released today as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed that Labor will reconfigure the Coalition's stage three tax changes to favour low- to middle-income earners.
A veteran employment lawyer is asking the FWC to repel a journalist's freedom of information bid for documents relating to a settled unfair dismissal case, warning that it could "undermine the correct administration of the Fair Work Act" and inflict "irreversible harm" on his client.
A worker who called a FWC deputy president a "dip-sh-t", "bearuacratic w-nker" and a "grinch" has failed to secure his recusal for allegedly failing to hold his employer accountable for breaching the Privacy Act.
A major mining company has voiced "serious concerns" at being targeted by a multi-employer bargaining test case involving several competitors, despite the Albanese Government's assurances that mine employers would not be significantly affected by the legislation.
The FWC has ordered compensation but declined to reinstate 24 DP World wharfies sacked in 2021 for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, finding that although the dismissal process was bungled, the workers "significantly contributed" to the situation.
