A special panel, similar to that proposed for the road transport industry, could be established within the FWC to set minimum pay and conditions for gig workers in disability, aged and home care, a leading IR academic has told a parliamentary inquiry.
A new report says that wage theft in Australian freight shipping is costing seafarers about $65 million a year and necessitates changes to the Fair Work Act and greater powers and cooperation for regulators.
The Albanese Government has adopted the FWC's proposed amendment to its legislation to introduce 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave, while it is separately pushing ahead with ratifying an ILO convention on the minimum working age.
A long-serving former employee of a company that deliberately restructured to offload severance obligations onto the publicly-funded FEG scheme has had his redundancy payout substantially increased, after the AAT ruled that a "grand chapel" deal with the AMWU "grandfathered" generous provisions in an earlier enterprise agreement.
Platform companies Deliveroo, Menulog and Uber say they are embracing the Federal Government's consultations on the introduction of national minimum IR standards for the gig economy, but insist any changes must be tailor-made and leave room for choice.
A Victorian Police fingerprint expert has been reinstated after the FWC found her dismissal for "deceitfully" calling her detective husband's ex-lover during work hours both disproportionate and harsh in terms of its financial impact.
A tribunal member, at the urging of a union, placed too much emphasis on employer Ausgrid's investigation rather than the conduct of workers accused of timesheet fraud, a FWC full bench has ruled.
A Federal Court judge has moved swiftly to shut down a legal representative for 18 airline workers seeking damages for COVID-19 vaccination-related sackings after he sent "obscene [and] threatening" emails to the defendants' lawyers and in-house IR teams.
The Albanese Labor Government should establish an "independent body" to set enforceable standards for traditional transport operations, along with on-demand delivery and rideshare platform work, according to a broad industry-union coalition.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus is seeking submissions on whether the Albanese Government should lower the Modern Slavery Act's $100 million reporting threshold and "more explicitly" spell out the "due diligence" steps companies should take to identify and address modern slavery, as part of a review of the legislation.
