The High Court has granted special leave for the federal government, the CFMEU and the CEPU to challenge a full Federal Court judgment that effectively stops the FWO and FWBC from continuing their practice of providing "agreed" penalty ranges to courts.
In rare public comments by a member of the Fair Work Commission, Vice-President Michael Lawler has rejected allegations or imputations of wrongdoing against him as "demonstrably false and malicious".
The federal government, the CFMEU and the CEPU are seeking to challenge a full Federal Court judgment that would stop the FWO and FWBC from continuing their practice of providing "agreed" penalty ranges to courts.
The ACCC won't pursue side-deeds under which the TWU agreed to "audit" transport giant Toll Holdings' major competitors and the company directed up to $150,000 a year to the union’s training company.
An independent review of the FWC’s trial of "triaging" enterprise agreement applications says that making the process permanent and national could cut processing costs almost in half and save $1 million a year.
A full Federal Court has upheld an order that required an aged care provider to pay a former employee the annual leave she accrued while she was absent from the workplace on workers' compensation.
The FWC has decided against referring a bullying matter to an OHS regulator, after the complainant failed to establish he was at risk of continued bullying because he had left the workplace.
Queensland's Parliament just before midnight last night passed the Palaszczuk Government's IR legislation, which it claims will remove key elements of the "LNP's wrecking ball changes".
Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James told a parliamentary committee today that her organisation is offering its workforce a pay rise of 1.25% over the next 12 months and 1% for each of the next two years, plus a 0.25% "unscheduled absence bonus" in the first year if sick leave can be reduced.
In one of the last wages and entitlements cases pursued by the FWBC, a building subcontractor that used a labour-hire company to distance itself from it employment obligations has been fined $145,000 and ordered to backpay $150,000 to more than a dozen workers.
