28 June 2024
Is 1 July 2024 a strict compliance date for the recent 3.75% FWC increase?
The FWC increase (if applicable) is payable on the “first full pay period” after 1 July 2024. This means that the FWC i...
17 June 2024
How does the recent 3.75% FWC increase apply to over Award/EA and/or all-inclusive salaries?
It depends on the employment contract/EA. For this reason, every individual might have a different outcome – so check y...
12 June 2024
Key Changes for 1 July 2024
See below for reference....
11 June 2024
3.75% rise in Award rates and National Minimum Wage
FWC approved a 3.75% increase in all Award rates and the National Minimum Wage (NMW)....
02 February 2024
The End to Casual Confusion? . . . Not quite
The Closing Loopholes legislation sought to provide further clarity to the vexed issue concerning ‘regular’ Casuals. It ...
30 November 2023
Public Holiday Compliance confirmed by High Court
Last week the High Court confirmed that employees must be given a choice as to whether they will agree or refuse to work...
12 June 2023
Wages Increase - FWC Awards 5.57 percent
Both employers and employees may not be entirely happy with the decision – neither got what they wanted - but it is like...
29 May 2023
Should Employer's really be fearing being 'roped in' to a multi-employer Enterprise Agreement in the new system?
It depends on who you ask. Most Employer groups have cautioned that the Secure Jobs Act's single-interest bargaining pr...
24 April 2023
Don't Sleep on Zombie Agreements
Employers currently covered by a pre-2010 workplace agreement (Zombie Agreement) are required to notify their employees ...
11 November 2022
Is it time to finally move away from my nominally expired or Zombie Agreement?
Yes. Whilst the pressure has been on business to upgrade nominally expired enterprise agreements and particularly those...
08 April 2022
Unions seek 5 percent rise in minimum rates
Peak union body the ACTU has indicated it will pursue a 5% increase across all award rates in this year’s minimum wage r...
11 May 2021
Has Good Faith Bargaining grown some teeth or gone too far this time?
The recent decision of Victorian Ambulance Union Incorporated v Health Select Pty Ltd t/a Health Select [2021] FWC 1434,...
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