Workers in highly-feminised industries should receive pay rises of at least 9% in this year's annual wage review to stay in step with Fair Work Act changes to foster gender equity, the ACTU will tell the FWC's minimum wage panel.
An employer had insufficient evidence to support its sacking of a manager who consumed up to 15 standard drinks the day and evening before his 7am start, the FWC has ruled.
The US Federal Trade Commission has published a final rule change that imposes a nationwide ban on non-compete clauses, adding international impetus to the growing push by the Albanese Government to end them here.
A worker has told the High Court that limitations on seeking damages for disciplinary and dismissal processes that result in psychiatric injury are "incoherent and irrational", in a case with the potential to create a new duty of care for employers.
The UFU's aviation branch has welcomed an in-principle agreement three-year for airport firefighters that uses allowances, job classification upgrades and higher overtime rates to improve on the Federal Government's public sector pay cap of 11.2% over three years.
The Ai Group has told a Senate inquiry that the jobs transition plan in the Net Zero Bill currently before parliament "treads on very sensitive ground" when set against the established treatment of redundancies in Australia's IR framework.
The FWC's annual wage review will have to deliver a rise in the federal minimum wage of at least 3.6% to meet the Federal Government's push for an inflation-matching pay rise, following the release of the latest ABS cost-of-living data.
Lawyers behind an underpayments class action on behalf of more than 20,000 junior doctors say a $230 million settlement reached with NSW Health is the largest in the nation's legal history and represents a "seismic shift".
The Federal Court has given a media company until next month to change its defence against an article that allegedly carries the defamatory imputation that a university professor created or fostered a toxic workplace culture of bullying and fear.
RAFFWU has established that most Victorian workers at Factory X fashion brands Dangerfield and Princess Highway want to bargain but has lost its bid for a MSD after the FWC found it arbitrarily excluded cottage sister brand Gorman.
