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Fast independent news and analysis for IR/HR practitioners.AiG backs 2.8% pay lift; Bull back in the ring; & more
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AiG backs 2.8% minimum wage lift; Bull back in the ring; Award super right to apply from next month; and Timetable tweak for RtD provision in awards.Workplace Express2024-03-27T14:27:17+11:00FWC laments "like it or lump it" extra hours scenario
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The FWC has expressed dismay at a large aged care employer's "shift bidding" system in which it offers part-time workers extra hours only at ordinary pay, recommending instead that each employee get a chance to cap how many such shifts they are prepared to work without receiving overtime rates.Workplace Express2024-03-26T12:34:03+11:00Unions seek 5% rise in minimum pay, award rates
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The ACTU will ask the the FWC to raise the national minimum wage and award rates by 5% when it files its claim for the Annual Wage Review this week.Workplace Express2024-03-25T22:04:00+11:00Limit minimum pay rise to 2%: ACCI
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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.Workplace Express2024-03-25T13:59:14+11:00Maximum fine for diplomat who kept worker in "slave-like conditions"
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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.Workplace Express2024-03-21T15:10:45+11:00"It's time" say nurses seeking up to 35% pay lift
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The ANMF is seeking pay rises of up to 35% for an estimated 250,000 nurses, nursing assistants and midwives as part of a work value claim intended to build on the wins of the related aged care case and extend the "recognition" to other healthcare settings.Workplace Express2024-03-20T10:18:36+11:00Work value case delivers up to 28.5% for aged care workers
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Direct care workers in aged care will receive total work value pay rises of up to 28.5% after a five-member FWC full bench handed down its final ruling today.Workplace Express2024-03-15T14:51:16+11:00Federal Police back politician-targeting protected action
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Australian Federal Police Association members have endorsed taking 36 types of protected industrial action - including indefinite or periodic bans on attending Federal politicians' functions or events that do not carry a "significant" threat rating or higher - in pursuit of pay rises that break the shackles of the Albanese Government's 11.2% over three years public sector pay deal.Workplace Express2024-03-13T17:04:32+11:00Casual worker prompts clarification of award terms
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A casual real estate agent's application has spurred the FWC to vary the industry's award to clarify working hours and associated car allowances, accepting evidence that he had not been paid for the time involved in travelling up to 100 kilometres directly from home to conduct open inspections.Workplace Express2024-03-04T15:06:36+11:00Lawyer fined after "unreasoned" approach to underpayments
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A lawyer has been fined $2400 and her eponymous firm a further $12,000 after a judge highlighted her "unreasoned and unreasonable" belief that the FWO wrongly concluded that it underpaid a legal secretary.Workplace Express2024-02-28T07:05:22+11:00Early childhood workers on track for "substantial" pay rise: IEU
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The IEU is envisioning that a landmark supported bargaining deal for early childhood workers will secure a "substantial" pay rise and conditions improvements that will be extended nationally, after unions and employers met with Federal Government representatives on Friday.Workplace Express2024-02-27T12:20:27+11:00WGEA names gender pay equity laggards
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The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has revealed a NDIS health service, the Energizer battery giant and an investment and logistics company have the largest median total remuneration gender pay gaps, while construction topped the list on an industry basis, under new laws requiring the agency to annually report the performance of companies with 100-plus employees.Workplace Express2024-02-27T00:10:00+11:00SDA wins coverage in new Subway deal
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A FWC full bench led by President Adam Hatcher has granted the SDA coverage in a deal capturing six Subway stores after the union successfully challenged approval of an agreement replacing a 17-year-old deal due to be automatically axed in December.Workplace Express2024-02-26T13:28:41+11:00Court holds accountants to account for withholding records
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An accountancy firm and its principal must pay penalties totalling almost $70,000 for failing to comply with FWO notices to produce documents linked to to its client's "grossly inadequate" employee record-keeping.Workplace Express2024-02-19T06:45:32+11:00Iron ore supply threat averted as BHP buckles on guaranteed rises
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BHP iron ore train drivers in the Pilbara have called off tomorrow's planned 24-hour strike, after reaching what the MEU says is an "industry-leading" in-principle enterprise deal that provides a guaranteed across-the-board 20% pay rise over four years and $40,000 in retention payments.Workplace Express2024-02-15T18:20:09+11:00Timetable too tight to address undervaluation in wage case: ACTU
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The ACTU says the FWC should conduct a "comprehensive assessment" of gender-based undervaluation of work, rather than seek to finalise the issue in this year's minimum wage review.Workplace Express2024-01-30T14:17:29+11:00FWC douses firefighting IBD, urges further talks
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The FWC has refused to grant Ventia an intractable bargaining declaration it sought after workers at outsourced Defence aviation firefighting operations in Queensland rejected its unilateral offer, in the tribunal's first contested IBD case determined by a single member.Workplace Express2024-01-22T11:37:04+11:00Judge issues warning on director's telehealth sick note
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A judge has held that an "instant" online script did not excuse an underpaying employer from having to attend a penalty hearing, while also warning that in future the court is unlikely to accept certificates from providers using the model adopted by the Wesfarmers-owned service.Workplace Express2023-12-19T12:08:00+11:00FWO steps up pursuit of underpaying economist
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A court has issued rare orders compelling a former economics professor to face FWO questions under oath about his capacity to pay penalties and compensation arising from underpayment judgments handed down in 2019 and 2020.Workplace Express2023-12-14T12:56:21+11:00Court rejects director's bid to save on lawyers
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A director's argument that he is well qualified to represent his company in an underpayments case has fallen flat, a court citing a "lack of objectivity" as being among the reasons to reject the proposition.Workplace Express2023-12-12T12:11:24+11:00Split IBD bid into two streams: Cleanaway
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The TWU is asking the FWC to hear in tandem its separate bids for intractable bargaining declaration bids at two Cleanaway Waste Management sites, but the company has no truck with that view, saying the context at each location is "very different".Workplace Express2023-12-11T15:32:45+11:00FWC research to identify gender-based undervaluation in 12 awards
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The FWC has today launched the next stage of its gender pay equity research, in which it will examine a dozen awards covering highly-feminised sectors to uncover indicators of gender-based undervaluation of minimum rates, ahead of the 2023-24 annual wage review.Workplace Express2023-12-05T14:41:34+11:00RBA employees back union-bypass deal
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RBA employees have voted up the bank's revised unilateral offer, in a ballot that closed late yesterday.Workplace Express2023-12-01T12:39:52+11:00FWC brokers deal to end decade-long Esso dispute
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After chairing negotiations between resources giant Esso and the AWU, long-serving FWC member Bernie Riordan has today issued a recommendation that the company provide a 22% pay rise over almost four years to end a decade-long deadlock for its Bass Strait platform operators and that in return the workforce move to a new roster.Workplace Express2023-11-24T18:02:48+11:00Pre-Christmas pay rise under APS deal
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The CPSU is recommending the Albanese Government's "bolstered" final pay offer to its members, after winning an additional lump sum payment that brings the first year's 4% increase forward by 12 weeks.Workplace Express2023-11-24T14:36:36+11:00Bill axes public sector pay cap, sees in "mutual gains" bargaining
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The Minns Labor Government has introduced IR changes that "remove the power to cap wages for good" and replace it with a "mutual gains bargaining" system, while also boosting the NSW IRC's powers and restoring it as an integrated court and tribunal.Workplace Express2023-11-24T12:56:17+11:00Wage increases not driving up inflation: Analysis
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Award wage increases have responded to rather than contributed to higher price inflation, and although the tight labour market has brought higher pay growth, it is "not enough to be a threat to slowing price inflation", according to a leading labour market economist.Workplace Express2023-11-24T12:00:14+11:00FSU pushes back against ANZ, RBA
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ANZ's plan to "force" workers to return to the office for half of the working week is "short-sighted", "antiquated" and "punitive", according to the Finance Sector Union, which is also urging members at the RBA to reject a second unilateral bargaining offer.Workplace Express2023-11-23T08:14:45+11:00Tears for onion farmer seeking zombie deal extension
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A FWC full bench has refused to extend a farm's 16-year-old deal for 12 weeks beyond next month's sunsetting of zombie agreements, describing the application as an effort to pay below-award rates for "one more" onion-picking season.Workplace Express2023-11-20T14:34:00+11:00Study uncovers potential undervalued feminised jobs
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University research commissioned by the FWC has identified 29 "large, highly feminised" and probably undervalued occupations covered by 13 modern awards that it might spotlight in the current annual wage review, in response to the Secure Jobs' imperative to address unequal remuneration and gender undervaluation in minimum rates of pay.Workplace Express2023-11-17T09:21:00+11:00