Annual growth in private sector pay has gone backwards for the first time since the height of the pandemic, according to ABS data released today, but it continues to outpace inflation.
The FWC has waved through a worker's late unfair dismissal application after accepting that it took seeing a job advertisement closely mirroring her role to crystallise doubts about whether she had genuinely been made redundant.
The Albanese Government has committed to funding further wage increases for aged care and child care workers in this year's federal budget but has not given further details, ahead of forthcoming determinations by the FWC.
Woolworths has again breached bargaining laws by failing to provide information to RAFFWU in a timely way, with the FWC ordering it to share SDA and AWU draft clauses and urging it to give bargaining representatives at least a week to consider a proposed deal before balloting members.
The ETU will push at next month's ACTU Congress for affiliates to support its plan to establish government-mandated "industry rates and conditions" in sectors crucial to the clean energy transition, such as solar power construction and transmission networks.
In a decision assessing how long a valid reason remains "current", the FWC has overlooked serious procedural deficiencies to back a landscaping business's summary sacking of a gardener almost two months after he called a colleague a "fat exploiter of foreigners".
A massage business and its director must pay more than $2 million in fines and compensation after significantly short-changing temporary visa workers, subjecting them to a "cashback" scheme and threatening to kill their families if they blew the whistle.
A leading IR lawyer involved in a claim for an "exemption rate" in the Clerks Award says almost all employers of salaried staff, across industries, are breaching record-keeping requirements.
Mining giant Peabody has asked the High Court to weigh in on the "critical question" of when redundancies can be considered genuine and the extent of FWC powers to determine how employers might avoid job losses.