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Invest now in compliance, Stewart urges employers

Closing Loopholes 2 provisions that substantially increase penalties for breaching the Fair Work Act should prompt employers to consider boosting their investment in payroll systems and checking compliance, Adelaide University Professor of Law Andrew Stewart says.

Scope questions torpedo Coles PABO bid

RAFFWU will challenge the rejection of a PABO bid targeting Coles supermarkets and Liquorland outlets after the FWC found it failed to genuinely bargain on behalf of salaried managers it wants to include in a multi-employer deal.


TAFE workers reinstated after law firm's investigation criticised

The FWC has taken a leading law firm to task over its protracted investigation of three TAFE employees accused of fraudulent, dishonest and corrupt behaviour, rejecting findings of misconduct that led to their dismissal and ordering their reinstatement.

FWC calls time on 24-year-old deal

The FSU has failed to extend the life of an agreement made at the dawn of the century while it pursues a majority support determination forcing AMP to the bargaining table.

FWC offers no remedy for CSL's bargaining complaints

Biotechnology giant CSL has failed to win rare bargaining orders sought against two maintenance unions after the FWC dismissed a HR manager's "flimsy" evidence that contractors had been intimidated by a picket.

Major harassment case targets supplier to Woolies, Coles

A major fruit and vegetable grower defending one of the biggest workplace s-xual harassment and assault cases in Australia says it took "immediate steps" to remove the accused workers and it no longer employs them.


Legislation looming to axe RtD criminal penalty threat

The Albanese Government plans to introduce a bill at the end of the week to remove the threat of criminal penalties from its Closing Loopholes right to disconnect provisions that are slated to pass Parliament today, but the Coalition has pledged to repeal the measures if it wins the next election.

Big fine for Italy after annual leave, records breaches

The Federal Court has flayed the Republic of Italy for failing to heed Australian IR laws in its local consulates and has ordered it to pay a $94,000 fine, $7500 compensation and indemnity costs to an administrative employee after it failed to pay him annual leave loading for six years, to keep records in English and to produce the records on demand.