Thousands of current and former Optus retail consultants and store managers will be paid out more than $7.8m after the company admitted it had been underpaying workers. On Friday. the Fair Work Ombudsman announced the telco had signed an enforceable undertaking to repay more than 3700 staff members employed betweenContinue Reading
Workers on new collective agreements are scoring average wage increases of up to 5.8 per cent according to fresh data released by the workplace umpire. The latest fortnightly wages data for enterprise agreement applications to the Fair Work Commission found showed average annual pay rises were 4.8 per cent acrossContinue Reading
Peak unions have called on the federal government to widen its sweeping workplace law changes to secure greater job security and more pay for millions of casual workers. Australia’s top unions appeared during a hearing into the government’s contentious workplace law changes in Perth on Friday. In its submissions, bothContinue Reading
Uber Eats delivery drivers and outsourced labour staff could pocket a combined $910m in yearly wages under new government laws that have been slammed by businesses who say it will increase costs for households. The federal government’s industrial relations reforms, brought into parliament this week, would pay a combined $400mContinue Reading
Welcome to Sisters In Law, news.com.au’s weekly column solving all of your legal problems. This week, our resident lawyers and real-life sisters Alison and Jillian Barrett from Maurice Blackburn advise a victim of workplace bullying. QUESTION: I love my job, but there’s one senior member of the team who seemsContinue Reading
Customer service staff at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia are terrified of losing their jobs as more and more roles get shunted overseas to India. Stephanie*, who did not want to use her real name, started working at the bank during the pandemic answering phones. She later moved into workingContinue Reading
University staff across Australia will protest for a week from Monday as academics, admin and support workers at “breaking point” gear up to fight job insecurity, unsafe workloads and poor pay. In Victoria, thousands of staff at Monash University, the University of Melbourne, and Deakin University will walk off theContinue Reading
A senior manager at one of Queensland’s largest hospitality groups is facing a possible police referral after the Fair Work Commission found it had ripped off hundreds of its employees. Mantle Group Hospitality was ordered to pay back employees across their empire of cafes, bars and restaurants who were underpaidContinue Reading
Labor is set to make the most significant industrial relations reforms in more than a decade after striking a deal with Senate crossbencher David Pocock to secure his support for its Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill to pass parliament this week. Why does Labor want this? Labor went to theContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese has declared it is a “huge day for working people” after striking a deal with a key crossbencher to get Labor’s wide-ranging industrial relations reforms through parliament. But the Prime Minister wouldn’t be drawn on when Australians could expect the passing of the Secure Jobs, Better Pay BillContinue Reading