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A discussion on the Fair Work Australia ("FWA") handing down its second annual wage decision.

The FWO's focus on the construction industry is a result of more than 2000 complaints to the FWO by construction workers.

The FWO has made an example of George and his restaurant empire, MADE Establishment, through an enforceable undertaking.

Australia's national minimum wage and modern award pay rates are set to increase by 2.5% starting July 1, 2015. On June 2, 2015, the Minimum Wage Panel of the Fair Work Commission announced an increase to the minimum rates.

The Bill plans to alter the individual flexibility arrangement sydtem, Greenfields agreements and union rights of entry.

A court has determined that an employee had a workplace right under the Fair Work Act 2009 to make a complaint entitling the employee to proceed with her general protections claim.

This Bill restores immediate entry powers for WHS permit holders to workplaces in the event of suspected safety breaches.

Employers and employees alike need to be aware of important changes in the workplace relations space.

As previously reported in our April Update, the Labor Government has draft legislation before the Federal Parliament to amend the "Fair Work Act 2009".

In this special crossover episode of Inside Employment and Inside Safety, Steve Bell, Tony Wood and Lucy Boyd explore the increasingly complex regulatory landscape facing Australian employers and the growing scrutiny from workplace, safety and human rights regulators.

In our very first episode of Inside IR, partners Rohan Doyle and Natalie Gaspar begin their deep dive into the Federal Government's recent Jobs & Skills Summit.

An employee may be summarily dismissed if their employer has reasonable grounds to establish serious misconduct.

The NSW Government on the premise of combating reduced workload for the NSW Industrial Relations Commission and to free Chief Industrial Magistrate Hart to return to the general bench to deal with the core business of the Local Courts, has introduced legislation, "the Industrial Relations Amendment (Jurisdiction of Industrial Relation Commission) Bill 2009.

This decision of the Tribunal might help sole traders who feel that they have been unfairly denied JobKeeper payments.

By clarifying what is "unlawful adverse action", the High Court has narrowed the scope of the burden on the employer.

Criminalisation of wage theft and increases to penalties for underpayment.

States aim to stamp out dodgy labour hire practices by introducing licences to "fit and proper" labour hire businesses.