Awards do not adequately cover visual artists and the "preferable solution" is for the FWC to create a new award, the ACTU says in its submission to the modern awards review, while also recommending the Government extend the Closing Loopholes Bill's "employee-like" definition to non-digital platform workers.
A couple has been cleared to pursue Telstra over claims it is vicariously responsible for their alleged s-xual harassment by a former employee using confidential contact details sourced through the telco.
Friday feedback deadline on draft wage review timetable; Grace continues in IR portfolio; McGurk WA's new IR minister; FWC can now handle fixed-term contract disputes; Petrol interests back Loopholes wage theft criminalisation; and FWC's O'Neill takes on Defence pay sideline.
In the wake of the passage of the Closing Loopholes legislation, the Albanese Government is again seeking expressions of interest for vice president, deputy president, commissioner and expert panel member roles.
An employer has failed to win approval for a deal that introduces a "new entrant" category paying construction workers who become traffic controllers 6% below their award rate while denying them an industry allowance, with the FWC unmoved by its argument that they need more supervision.
The Federal Court has programmed a 10-day hearing in March next year to determine any compensation for the 1680 Qantas group employees the airline subjected to unlawful adverse action when it outsourced their jobs at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Federal Court has today ordered BHP Coal to pay $120,000 in penalties and substantial compensation, including for hurt and humiliation, to two Workpac on-hire workers it ousted from its Bowen Basin coal mines in Central Queensland.
Applications for "same job, same pay" orders are available from today, along with stronger workplace delegates rights, after the Closing Loopholes Act received Royal Assent yesterday.
Container terminal operator DP World's refusal to bargain while MUA members take protected action has contributed to a FWC finding that it would not be in the public interest to suspend it for a 90-day "cooling off" period.
The FWC has held that it cannot deal with a worker's casual conversion dispute as the recent sale of the business she works for has restarted the clock on her requirement to complete 12 months' service with her current employer.
