Business leaders and workplace lawyers are warning employers to brace for more work-from-home claims as unions promise to use this week’s Fair Work Commission decision against Westpac to further entrench worker entitlements.
“Business is hard enough without unnecessary over-reaching by government to make it even harder,” businessman Tim Gurner told AFR Weekend after ACTU leader Sally McManus said the decision was a clear rebalancing of the power between employees and employers.
Sally Patten edits BOSS, and writes about workplace issues. She was the financial services editor and personal finance editor of the AFR, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. She edited business news for The Times of London. Connect with Sally on Twitter. Email Sally at spatten@afr.com
