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Limit minimum pay rise to 2%: ACCI

The FWC's minimum wage panel should award an increase of no more than 2% in this year's annual wage review, according to peak employer group ACCI, partly to correct "errors" in the Commission's analysis in its last two rulings.

FWC puts bank's zombie deals in the vault

Union support has not proved enough for a clutch of CBA workers to have their zombie AWAs extended, after a FWC full bench accepted the bank's efforts to ameloriate any losses arising from transferring to its existing enterprise agreement.

Government to again push for inflation-matching rise

The Albanese Government will for the third year in a row tell the FWC it wants to ensure low-paid workers' wages don't go backwards in the annual wage review, while it will also urge it to overlook tax cuts and cost-of-living relief.

$8K to worker sacked for getting "demonic" COVID-19 jab

A Newcastle-based church unfairly summarily dismissed a worker when it took the view that no-one vaccinated against COVID-19 could work for it because it viewed the inoculation as "the world's largest ever untested medical experiment", and retrospectively applied the policy to the worker without warning.

Union launches second same-job, same-pay bid

The MEU has lodged the second application to test the Closing Loopholes "same job, same pay" changes, this time aiming to lift the pay of Programmed labour hire workers at a NSW coal mine by $30,000 to $40,000, with many more claims planned.

Public sector nurses seek new permanency measures

The ANMF's Victorian branch has stepped up its campaign to curb casualisation and provide incentives for permanent working hours to build a "stable" health workforce, as it negotiates towards a new four-year enterprise agreement for about 60,000 public sector nurses and midwives.



Outlaw non-competes in enterprise deals: RBA's Ross

Employers are increasingly using non-compete clauses and their incidence will continue to accelerate if regulators fail to intervene, according to new research by Reserve Bank board member and former FWC president Iain Ross, who also wants them banned from future enterprise agreements.

Maximum fine for diplomat who kept worker in "slave-like conditions"

A court has hit a former Indian High Commissioner with maximum fines for entrapping a worker in "powerless domestic servitude" in the guise of a diplomatic posting, paying her $9 daily to keep his palatial Canberra home 17.5 hours a day, seven days a week.