Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Australia as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Australia: FWA reforms
Fair Work Act amendments designed to protect casual workers, could very well end up making it far easier to classify them as casual …
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Australia: Government passes controversial anti-encryption law
Digital communications in Australia has joined the ranks of Russia, Saudi Arabia and China by banning end-to-end encryption services …
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Australia: Employers demand crackdown on worker underpayments
In an unusual move, Australia’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry is advising the national government to beef up the office of the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) with extra powers and more inspectors in order to clamp down harder on employers who underpay …
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Australia: Banking Royal Commission report
Although the Banking Royal Commission report has been a bit of a dud, it does contain one important recommendation for employees …
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Australia: Managers and Professionals have highest hourly earnings
According to latest figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the average hourly wage for all employees in May 2018 was $39 …
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Australia: Is a contractor liable for redundancy pay in a contract services company
In a contract services company, should an employee’s employment contract end when a client contract comes to an end – and is the contractor then liable for redundancy pay? These questions hang in the air following a number of cases involving the Australian company ‘Spotless’ …
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Australia: The Australian Modern Slavery Act has passed
The national parliament has now passed the Australian Modern Slavery Act (Newswire May 17th, 2018) …
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Australia: Domestic violence leave now an entitlement
An amendment to the Fair Work Act has brought into force a new right for all workers who are victims of domestic violence to take up to five days’ unpaid leave …
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Australia: 15% of employees are trade union members
New data recently released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that in August 2018, 15% of employees reported being a member of a trade union in their main job …
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Australia: Broadreach Services ordered to pay $150,000 to former general manager
A video-conferencing company, Broadreach Services, has been ordered to pay AUD$150,000 (approx …
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Australia: Full federal court decision a reminder that ‘casual’ employees may actually be permanent staff
Following a case reported by FedEE in August concerning a casual truck driver who was entitled to annual leave, another recent Federal Court decision in Queensland has come to a similar conclusion …
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Australia: Wages rise 0.6% in the September quarter 2018
According to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), over the year to September 2018, seasonally adjusted wages and salaries in the private sector rose by 2 …
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Australia: TPP to take effect following Australia’s ratification
The Australian parliament has just voted to become the sixth signatory of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) …
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Australia: New migrants may have to live in rural areas
A proposal to force new migrants to live outside Sydney and Melbourne has recently been unveiled by the Australian government, in a move to ease the growing urban population crisis and boost regional areas …
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Australia: Barnaby Joyce sexual harassment investigation unable to reach conclusion
A dire warning about the dangers of keeping the handling of sexual harassment cases to internal disciplinary procedures is well illustrated in the recent highly publicised case concerning the politician Barnaby Joyce …
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