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The high income threshold will increase to $153,600, effective from 1 July 2020.   The Fair Work Commission has today released its annual increase to the high income threshold. This threshold affects how modern awards apply to employees and, i...

The Fair Work Commission's 2019/20 Annual Wage Review decision has now been handed down.   A majority of the Expert Panel for annual wage reviews (Panel) noted that this review was undertaken during a global pandemic, with the...

The Australian Banking Association (ABA) has announced that its member banks have agreed to extend their small business relief measures to businesses with total business loan facilities of up to $10M (increased from the previous $3M threshold), inclu...

The introduction of the Fair Work Amendment (Casual Loading Offset) Regulations 2018 (Cth) will effectively alleviate the opportunity for employees, who have been incorrectly classified as ‘casuals’, from double-dipping on their entitlements...

As part of its four-yearly review of modern awards, a Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has handed down its provisional view1 that all modern awards should be varied to incorporate a ‘model term’ expanding the r...

The high income threshold has increased to $145,400, effective from 1 July 2018.   The Fair Work Commission has released its annual increase to the high income threshold. This threshold affects how modern awards apply to employees and, importa...

We recently issued a brief summary of the Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) 23 February 2017 decision on penalty rates. We now set out further details of the proposed changes for each of the modern awards considered and how they may affec...

A Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has this morning handed down its long awaited decision on weekend and public holiday penalty rates in the retail and hospitality industries. The FWC has reduced the Sunday and public ho...