A Perth business has copped a $15,840 fine for sacking a 16-year-old because the boy’s mother queried his pay. Stephen Ashley was person…
A Perth business has copped a $15,840 fine for sacking a 16-year-old because the boy’s mother queried his pay. Stephen Ashley was person…
The Australian Industry Group has warned more jobs will go offshore and more businesses will close unless Australia’s industrial relations s…
A new report from the Fair Work Ombudsman has uncovered an extraordinary amount of non-compliance in the vehicle repair and maintenance indu…
A protest led by a not so merry group of Santa Clauses yesterday has helped lead to a back-down by the NSW Government on its plans to allow …
Savvy entrepreneurs know the workplace is changing. Technology is making it easier to work on the road, blending the concept of work/life ba…
Fair Work Australia has ordered compensation to be paid to an employee who was sacked after bullying accusations and head-butting a co-worke…
National employers must offer employees they make redundant suitable and reasonable roles interstate, according to a recent Fair Work Austra…
The Fair Work Ombudsman has hit back at claims made in SmartCompany last month that it duplicates the work of other agencies and wastes taxp…
Business groups have called for the Federal Government to quickly pass its amendments to the Fair Work system, with the first batch of chang…
Complaints to the Fair Work Ombudsman have soared in the last year with the Ombudsman’s annual report published yesterday revealing last yea…
Businesses are critical of the limited change to unfair dismissal provisions announced by the Federal Government yesterday, claiming unions …
Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten today offered limited relief on unfair dismissal laws to business but the Australian Chamber of Co…