The FWC has rejected a proposal by Australia's oldest library to split employees' roles into front or back-of-house, pointing out that it couldn't "contradict" changes contained in its nominally-expired deal without varying, terminating or renegotiating the agreement.
Treasury officials have sought to reassure senators that if employers recruit and engage young workers under the Morrison Government's $4 billion JobMaker hiring credit scheme, they won't breach the Age Discrimination Act.
A 61-year-old former economics professor has been fined $31,000 for underpaying two visa holders employed at a Korean grocery, a court finding he deliberately arranged for them to receive as little as $10 an hour.
A full Federal Court has warned against "hypothetical postulation" in refusing to say whether it can make a common fund order on conclusion of a class action brought by 7-Eleven franchisees, while suggesting it could still happen if considered just.
An FWC full bench has rejected on public interest grounds a two-years-late AMWU bid to challenge the approval of a construction company's deal with two workers.
The National Library of Australia has avoided becoming the second federal public body forced to make a "contrition payment" to the FWO, after admitting to underpaying casual employees almost $250,000 over two decades.
An accountancy firm that created and gave the FWO false records covering up a massage parlour's underpayments must pay more per breach than the family-run employer, which has been fined about 10% of the penalties sought by the workplace watchdog.
The FWC has in varying 97 awards to address casuals' overtime payments rejected employer arguments that its application of a compounding formula in the aged care sector contradicts the "widely accepted" proposition that penalties should not be applied to loadings.
