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Royal Commissioner John Dyson Heydon AC QC today dismissed the application of the ACTU and other trade unions, seeking his disqualification from the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption claiming ‘apprehended bias’ by the Royal Commissioner. The applications by the…
A typically nostalgic Fair Work Commission has decided to re-introduce Accident make-up pay into twenty-one modern awards effective from 15 October 2015. The modern awards are: Hydrocarbons Industry (Upstream) Award 2010; Labour Market Assistance Industry Award 2010; Marine Towage Award 2010;…
The Australian Productivity Commission’s ‘The Workplace Relations Framework - Draft Report’ released today, stops short of recommending wholesale replacement of the current legislative and institutional system underpinning workplace regulation in Australia. Rather, it has opted…
The Fair Work Commission has decided to apply a standard provision allowing employers and employees to agree to paid time off work in lieu of overtime payment (TOIL). Time off work will be paid at the ordinary hourly rate. The Full Bench of the Commission indicated that its provisional view is that…