Posts tagged "fair work commission"

Would small business awards handed down by the Prime Minister, or formal accreditation for those who pay suppliers on time, help to re-energise the SME sector? Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Bruce Billson believes so.

The Australian Retailers Association has welcomed the Fair Work Commission's plan to undertake a "fundamental review" of how part-time provisions are written into the awards system, which could alter the way businesses manage working arrangements with their staff.

Australian workers could refuse to provide personal contact details to their employer for the purposes of out-of-hours communication, according to a 'right to disconnect' proposal put before the FWC.

The Fair Work Commission is set to announce the National Minimum Wage and awards wages next month, to go into effect from July 1. Here's a summary of peak body submissions on minimum wage awards.

Pandemic-era rules allowing employees to take double the amount of annual leave at half pay could return and become permanent, under a proposal reportedly put to the Fair Work Commission.

The Fair Work Commission is not asking whether award workers should have the blanket right to work from home, and lawmakers are not currently seeking that right, claims Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke.

For businesses wanting to take advantage of machine learning, human habits can be the weak link.

The Fair Work Commission has handed down a landmark decision that could affect remote work arrangements in Australia.

With Christmas less than 90 days away, employers should be turning their minds to planning and confirming their Christmas/New Year shutdown arrangements.

Small businesses have been given some breathing room before the next tranche of industrial relations reforms become law, after the Senate voted push a report on the Albanese government's 'Closing Loopholes' bill into 2024.

An employee who worked from home has lost her unfair dismissal bid, after her employer found low keystroke activity while monitoring her laptop.

Australia's minimum wage will rise 8.6% to $882.80 per 38-hour work week from July 1, lifting small business wage bills while bringing the nation's lowest-paid employees closer to the runaway cost of living.