by focushr-team | Jun 9, 2025 | Alerts
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) announced the 2025 minimum wage review outcome on June 3, 2025. The decision included that: This is a 3.5% increase to minimum award wages. The national minimum wage will increase to $948.00 per week or $24.95 per hour. These changes...
by focushr-team | May 30, 2025 | News
One recent case (Fair Work Ombudsman v Chatime Australia Pty Ltd (No 2) [2023]) serves as a reminder that those who make executive decisions that result in contraventions of minimum conditions may be held personally liable for such decisions. What happened in this...
by focushr-team | May 6, 2025 | News
A recent Fair Work Commission (FWC) case has seen an interesting twist regarding a flexible work dispute. In Kelly Foster v National Australia Bank [2025] FWC 959 (7 April 2025), FWC held that it has no power under the Fair Work Act’s flexible work dispute...
by focushr-team | Oct 2, 2024 | News
As HR advisors, we often have conversations with managers about employees demonstrating inappropriate behaviours, however there is an underlying fear of taking action (especially termination) due to the risk of a Fair Work claim. Does that risk exist? Absolutely. But...
by focushr-team | Jun 25, 2024 | Alerts, News
It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke right? Well, there is a connection, and it is the recent C14 decision released by the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission earlier this year. ‘C14’ has become the term coined to reference pay rates within the Modern...
