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Ensure paid agent changes protect low-cost options: Consultant

Veteran IR consultant Garry Dircks has told the FWC that he supports measures to deal with "rogue" paid agents' "exploitative" and "improper" conduct, but cautions against adopting changes that are biased against them and prevent workers from securing lower-cost and lower-risk alternatives to lawyers.

"Gov lawyer" claim to be investigated

A café owner penalised for ignoring a FWO compliance notice has been referred to a legal profession regulator after variously describing herself as a "Commonwealth public prosecutions Lawyer" and "Gov lawyer" in emails to a court.

Gardeners forced into gardening leave as restraints burgeon: Leigh

A non-compete clause is business's "bluntest tool in the shed" and Australia should look to international limits on restraints of trade that enable workers to switch jobs more easily and give businesses other options to protect their interests, Assistant Competition Minister Andrew Leigh told the McKell Institute today.

Unions trying to "outsource" own work to delegates: ACCI

ACCI has shot down union proposals that would require employers to provide delegates with iPads, phones, boosted recruitment rights and paid time off for political lobbying, accusing them of trying to use a new model awards term to outsource their own work.

FWO meeting unions, employers as criminal penalty regime looms

Fair Work Ombudsman Anna Booth will next week hold the first meeting of a new tripartite advisory group, as her organisation prepares for the new criminal penalties regime and "safe harbour" mechanisms for employers who transgress but are willing to lift their games.

Little room for "entrepreneurship" makes worker an employee: FWC

In a decision sure to catch the eye of service providers using rostering apps to keep workers at arm's length, the FWC has found that a home care worker who signed two documents describing her as an independent contractor is in fact an employee capable of suing her employer for unlawful dismissal.

Direct sacked workers away from paid agents: Law firm

The law firm whose advocacy helped spur the FWC to consider regulating paid agents has called for improved "referral pathways" that steer workers contesting their dismissals towards pro bono clearing houses, Legal Aid and the community legal sector.

Expanding WFH rights risks "exacerbating tensions": HR body

The Australian Human Resources Institute has told the FWC's modern awards review that it opposes any expansion of working from home rights and does not support narrowing the grounds for refusing flexible work requests to "unjustifiable hardship".

Employer resists compulsory conciliation double-up

An employer is opposing a CFMEU request to have the FWC hold a joint post-PABO compulsory conciliation conference relating to two separate deals for its workers on the Cross River Rail project in South-East Queensland.

Offshore gas workers' stand-downs largely justified: FWC

An employer supplying well workers for offshore gas operations in the Bass Strait was entitled to stand down most of them when Esso suspended their services during industrial action, but the FWC has made a preliminary finding that a small yet "significant" portion might have been unauthorised.