Obviously, the government can’t set wages directly. But research shows recent policies that have increased worker power are ...

Michelle Grattan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

As Labor makes a pitch to minimum-wage workers, the Coalition proposes a new government agency to attract private investment ...

The FWC ordered that the employer grant the worker's flexible working arrangement request. This allowed him to work from ...

Fair Work Commission president Justice Adam Hatcher will reach the statutory retirement age in 2028. For a Coalition government, whose workplace agenda may be obstructed by a hostile Senate ...

On 20 March, we published the first in this two-part series about the legal developments being watched closely by resource sector businesses in ...

Now the Fair Work Commission (FWC) is reviewing whether this award covering administrative workers should include the right to work from home. The FWC hearings start today in a test case that ...

The Australian Council of Trade Unions will push the Fair Work Commission to grant a 4.5 per cent lift in the minimum wage at the upcoming annual wage review.

On Wednesday, the Minns government dropped its attempt at the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to block the action, after rail unions withdrew the work bans forming the basis of its case. However ...

The Greens have announced a plan to introduce a four-day work week, arguing productivity gains have mainly benefited ...

Whitehaven Coal Mining, Peabody Energy and Ulan Coal Mines have challenged a Fair Work Commission decision forcing them to engage in multi-employer bargaining with their workers. The mining ...

Ahead of a Fair Work Commission hearing on Tuesday, Mayor Stretch Kontelj said his Deakin ward colleague Andrew Katos would introduce an alternative motion at a meeting that was originally planned ...