The NTEU will today call for a parliamentary inquiry into underpayments by universities, coinciding with it calculating that more than 131,000 staff have been shortchanged by more than $380 million over the past decade, supposedly underlining that wage theft is "baked-in" to the institutions' business models.
A tribunal has accepted a barrister's assurances that an industrial advocacy firm is in no danger of breaching laws prohibiting payment for helping him to represent a real estate agent who is accusing her former employer and four ex-colleagues of s-xual harassment.
The income and compensation caps for unfair dismissal claims are set to increase next Monday, along with filing fees for a range of other applications.
The FWC has upheld Patrick Stevedores' sacking of a worker who thrice tested positive for methamphetamine, but has criticised the employer for breaching its own policies and creating an "incompatible regime" for dealing with drug and alcohol infringements.
A FWC panel considering gender undervaluation in five care and community sector awards has agreed to investigate an ACTU proposal to adopt a methodology to assess work value that the peak body says will save the panel being "lumbered with multiple expert reports that address different questions" without providing answers.
Victoria's public sector nurses are set to decide whether to endorse a pay rise of 28% over four years after rejecting an earlier offer and closing hospital beds, while NSW nurses have handed the Minns Government a "business case" for a quick 15% uplift.
Legislation introduced today by Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke provides two "pathways" for the CFMEU's manufacturing division to demerge from the broader union.
In a decision with broad implications for the disability services sector, a care provider has failed to overturn a ruling that a worker who signed two contracts describing her as an independent contractor is in fact an employee capable of suing it for alleged unlawful dismissal.
FWC President Adam Hatcher will conduct a directions hearing on Friday to consider an SDA bid to lift award junior rates for under-18 workers and abolish them altogether for those 18 and above, with the union arguing that age should not be a criterion for setting pay.
