News briefs
2009
Award modernisation statement
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a statement in relation to the process of making residual variations to modern awards.
21 December 2009Annual Wage Review 2009/10 statement
Justice Giudice today issued a statement in relation to the Annual Wage Review 2009/10.
21 December 2009Award modernisation decision
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a decision in relation to the making of the Stage 4 modern awards.
4 December 2009Award modernisation decision
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a notice of listing indicating that a decision in relation to the Stage 4 modern awards will be published on the AIRC and FWA websites at 12 noon tomorrow, Friday, 4 December 2009.
3 December 2009Award modernisation decision
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a decision in relation to transitional provisions for Stage 3 modern awards.
3 December 2009Award modernisation decision
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a notice of listing indicating that a decision in relation to transitional provisions for Stage 3 modern awards will be published on the AIRC and FWA websites at 12 noon tomorrow, Thursday 3 December 2009.
2 December 2009Minimum Wage Panel Appointments
The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations today announced the appointment of three part-time members of the Fair Work Australia Minimum Wage Panel—Mr Peter Dwyer, Professor Sue Richardson and Mr John Vines.
30 November 2009Award modernisation—Airline operations
A notice of listing was today issued relating to the 9 November 2009 variation from the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations regarding Airline operations.
17 November 2009Award modernisation decision
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a decision in relation to the transitional provisions to be included in the Cleaning Services Award 2010.
17 November 2009Award modernisation statement
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a statement in relation to labour hire services.
17 November 2009Award modernisation—Amended request
On 12 November 2009 the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations sent a letter to the President outlining a variation to the Federal Government's award modernisation request and also provided a consolidated version of the request.
12 November 2009Award modernisation quarterly report
The President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission has issued the award modernisation quarterly report for the September quarter 2009.
4 November 2009Award modernisation consultations—Stage 4
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a notice of listing detailing arrangements for a public consultation in relation to the draft Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 to be held on Thursday, 5 November 2009.
2 November 2009Annual reports
The 2008–09 annual reports of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission and the Australian Industrial Registry are now available online following their tabling today in the Australian Parliament.
26 October 2009Enterprise agreement decisions—New page & subcription service
A dedicated Enterprise agreement decisions page is now available on the FWA website. The page provides details of all enterprise agreement approval, variation and termination decisions made under the Fair Work Act 2009. These decisions will no longer be posted on the All decisions page of the website.
A subscription service for enterprise agreement decisions is also available. Existing subscribers can Log In, select Announcement services, then choose Enterprise Agreement Decisions. New users must join the service before choosing subscriptions.
15 October 2009Award modernisation consultations—Stage 4
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a notice of listing detailing arrangements for public consultations on the Stage 4 exposure drafts to be held in October and November 2009.
28 September 2009Award modernisation statement
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a statement in relation to the exposure drafts for Stage 4 modern awards.
25 September 2009Award modernisation statement
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a notice of listing indicating that a statement and Stage 4 exposure drafts will be published on the AIRC website at 10.00 am tomorrow.
24 September 2009Award modernisation statement
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a statement in relation to the transitional provisions for the Stage 3 and Stage 4 modern awards.
22 September 2009Fair Work Australia Rules 2009
The President of Fair Work Australia yesterday issued an amendment to the rules made on 30 June 2009. The amended rules are accessible from the Legislation & regulations section of the FWA website.
11 September 2009Award modernisation statement
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a statement in relation to the variation made to the award modernisation request on 26 August 2009.
10 September 2009Award modernisation decision & Stage 3 modern awards
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a decision and the Stage 3 modern awards. The decision deals with the making of the Stage 3 modern awards.
4 September 2009Award modernisation decision
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a notice of listing indicating that a decision and Stage 3 modern awards will be published on the AIRC website at 1.00 pm today.
4 September 2009Award modernisation decision
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a decision in relation to transitional provisions for priority and Stage 2 modern awards.
2 September 2009Award modernisation decision
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a notice of listing indicating that a decision in relation to transitional provisions for priority and Stage 2 modern awards will be published on the AIRC and FWA websites at 12 noon tomorrow, Wednesday 2 September 2009.
1 September 2009Award modernisation—Amended request
On 26 August 2009 the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations signed a variation to the Federal Government's award modernisation request and also provided a consolidated version of the request.
28 August 2009New online exhibition
The Sir Richard Kirby Archives today launched its first online exhibition—The Journey. The exhibition aims to give an insight into the journey from the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration to 21st Century institution Fair Work Australia.
24 August 2009Award modernisation statement
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a statement in relation to the proposed restaurant and catering industry award and the proposed seagoing industry award.
19 August 2009Award modernisation—amended request
On 17 August 2009 the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations signed a variation to the Federal Government's award modernisation request and also provided a consolidated version of the request.
18 August 2009Award modernisation consultations—Stage 4
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a notice of listing detailing the arrangements for a pre-drafting public consultation to be held in August 2009 as part of Stage 4 of the award modernisation process for Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
4 August 2009Award modernisation quarterly report
The President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission has issued the award modernisation quarterly report for the June quarter 2009.
29 July 2009Termination of employment
New remuneration and compensation limits took effect for termination of employment applications from 1 July 2009. The following now apply:
- A high income threshold remuneration limit (indexed from $106,400)—from 1 July 2009, an employee not employed under award conditions whose remuneration exceeds $108,300 per year is excluded from making application.
- Compensation limit (indexed from $53,200)—from 1 July 2009, the limit of compensation that may be awarded in lieu of reinstatement in unfair dismissal applications made under the Fair Work Act 2009 is $54,150. For applications made under the Workplace Relations Act 1996—from 1 July 2009 is $55,700.
- Application fee—from 1 July 2009, the new application fee for termination of employment applications is $59.50.
Award modernisation consultations—Stage 4
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a notice of listing detailing the arrangements for pre-drafting public consultations to be held in August 2009 as part of Stage 4 of the award modernisation process.
15 July 2009Award modernisation consultations—Transitional provisions
The Award Modernisation Full Bench today issued a notice of listing detailing arrangements for public consultations in relation to the Transitional Provisions for the priority and Stage 2 awards in July 2009.
2 July 2009Award modernisation—amended request
On 1 July 2009 the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations sent to the President a letter outlining a variation to the award modernisation request and also provided a consolidated version of the request.
2 July 2009Fair Work Australia
Fair Work Australia commenced operations today. Read the media release and the address presented by Justice Giudice to the inaugural sitting.
1 July 2009Fair Work Australia—Inaugural sitting
The inaugural sitting of Fair Work Australia was conducted at 9.00 am today.
1 July 2009
