Fair Work Commission
Fair Work Commission
Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 1,564
- Contract value (all years): 257,811,897 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 30,249,594 AUD
- APS headcount: 394
- Budget 2026-27: 110,075 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 1,137,865 AUD
- Directory roles: 8
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (25)
- 2026-07-07 — Fair Work Commission finds ‘mid-life fatigue’ isn’t a public sector WFH justification
- 2026-07-01 — AFP loses key workplace consultation case at Fair Work Commission
- 2026-04-20 — Councils warn Fair Work Commission fuel-cost order could blow budgets
- 2026-03-30 — FWC’s new powers to protect road transport operators from fuel price spikes
- 2026-02-22 — Fair Work Commission seeks user-pays price on flaky AI slop
- 2024-05-20 — Fair Work Commission flushes ATO dunny snoops for union business
- 2024-03-24 — APS work-from-home connectivity flares in FWC unfair dismissal decision
- 2024-03-21 — New ATO pay deal approved swiftly by Fair Work Commission
- 2024-02-19 — Dispute over new ATO flexible work rules referred to Fair Work Commission
- 2024-02-11 — Push to send ATO bargaining to Fair Work Commission intensifies
- 2024-01-18 — ATO pay dispute referred to Fair Work Commission as Jordan’s days count down
- 2024-01-14 — Union bosses told to bowl-up member talent for Fair Work Commission appointments
- 2023-12-13 — ATO staff pay offer declared ‘inadequate’, could go to Fair Work Commission
- 2023-12-06 — ATO staff vote on taking APS wage offer to Fair Work Commission
- 2023-09-20 — ATO taken to Fair Work Commission over alleged ‘false statements’ on performance management
- 2023-04-05 — Movers & Shakers: Fair Work Commission shake-up continues
- 2022-06-16 — Unions, interest groups respond to Fair Work Commission minimum wage decision
- 2022-03-30 — Budget 2022: Fair Work Commission to get new small business unit, plus more funding for ombud
- 2022-03-23 — Fair Work Commission not flooded with vax-related unfair dismissal claims — yet
- 2021-12-21 — FWC appointments divide unions and business groups
- 2021-11-12 — House committee probes FWC workload stemming from unfair dismissal cases
- 2021-09-28 — Fair Work Commission upholds sacking of worker who refused mandatory vaccine
- 2021-07-28 — Home Affairs responds to Fair Work Commission dress code decision
- 2019-11-11 — CSIRO heads to Fair Work Commission amid calls to scrap staff cap
- 2017-07-17 — David and Goliath in the Fair Work Commission
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-08-06 — Operation Richmond: Victorian bureaucrats mired in scandal over UFU influence
- 2026-08-06 — Movers & Shakers: Bumper Band 1 week
- 2026-08-05 — APSC gives ground on bargaining secrecy, public service sentiment
- 2026-07-23 — Albanese to restore federal workplace court abolished in 1997
- 2026-07-22 — DPS staff taken to task over social media breaches
- 2026-07-16 — Bargaining, budgets, and fat cats: A perfect storm is on the way
- 2026-07-14 — CPSU targets ATO call centre staff
- 2026-06-30 — ATO’s mainframe maintenance staff walk out over pay and conditions
- 2026-06-29 — ATO staff vote-up 24%, three-year pay claim by ASU
- 2026-04-30 — Movers & Shakers: Coaldrake joins ANU reform efforts
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 6 | $16,937 |
| Consultancy | 15 | $1,169 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson Global Resources (Aust) Pty Limited | 21002888762 | $6,757 | 2024-25 |
| Exco Partners Pty Ltd | 20634654701 | $4,421 | 2024-25 |
| Jones Lang Lasalle (ACT) Pty Limited | 69008585260 | $2,485 | 2022-23, 2024-25 |
| Data#3 Limited | 31010545267 | $1,784 | 2024-25 |
| McGirr Information Technology Pty Limited | 96001280315 | $1,490 | 2024-25 |
| O'Connor Marsden & Associates Pty Limited | 94135783792 | $423 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Thales Cyber Services Australia Pty Ltd | 52632539167 | $188 | 2024-25 |
| CyberCX Pty Ltd | 90629363328 | $175 | 2023-24 |
| Altius Group Holdings Pty Ltd | 99603911020 | $100 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| North Security Digital Pty Ltd | 39613493584 | $66 | 2022-23 |
| Ipsec Pty Ltd | 32140658402 | $63 | 2023-24 |
| Ernst & Young | 75288172749 | $56 | 2023-24 |
From the expenditure disclosures in each annual report — a separate source from the AusTender contract figures above, and not directly comparable with them.
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 23.2% | at this date |
| % Female | 64.7% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 1.3% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 75.1% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 11.4% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 18.1% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 67.6% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 77.0% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 1.0% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 14.2% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 394 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 39.7 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 4.6 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 10.2% | at this date |
APSC APS Employment Data, counting this agency including any bodies beneath it. Headcount, not FTE — the APSED release does not publish FTE.
Year by year
| Measure | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APS headcount | 304 | 303 | 331 | 304 | 304 | 294 | 305 | 305 | 300 | 297 | 331 | 337 | 390 | 401 | |
| Contracts | 186 | 201 | 199 | 186 | 243 | 266 | 209 | 74 | |||||||
| Contract value | $22,083,855 | $24,447,656 | $34,761,675 | $51,502,446 | $33,614,826 | $33,104,333 | $42,761,087 | $15,536,018 | |||||||
| Budget ($000) | 116,833 | 110,075 | |||||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 14 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||
| Top total pay | $410,095 | $590,286 | $592,459 | $591,592 | $438,361 | $634,831 | $1,137,865 |
An empty cell means no publishable row for that year — unknown, not nil. Never read a blank as a fall to zero.
Sources — annual reports
Each link opens transparency.gov.au — the published source the figures were read from. The label names the table to look for.
° The portal does not publish a path for this report, so the link opens the agency's reports on transparency.gov.au rather than that year directly. Pick the year from there.
