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The Fair Work Commission decision to allow award covered employees to ‘cash-out’ some of their annual leave has finally been implemented. All awards are being varied. The final schedule of determinations to vary modern awards allowing cashing out of annual leave, arrangements for taking…
The The Australian Fair Work Commission today decided to increase the National Minimum Wage and all modern award wages by 2.4 percent operative from 1 July 2016. The National Minimum Wage (NMW) will be $672.70 per week, or $17.70 per hour. The hourly rate has been calculated by dividing the weekly…
Almost tweleve months after the original decision, the Fair Work Commission has now decided on the ‘plain English’ draft of modern award Annual leave provisions allowing cashing out of annual leave, EFT payment of annual leave, leave in advance and the right to direct employees to take…
In excess of forty union officials, individual employers, ex-superannuation trust executives, the CFMEU, AWU and several businesses face prosecution for offences including criminal coercion, intimidation, obtaining property and financial advantage by deception, larceny, fraud, false accounting,…