The Secure Jobs review panel has used its final report to challenge employer claims that the changes will harm productivity, while also underscoring the importance of gender equality and the distribution of gains to workers as further drivers.
Eminent employment law academic Andrew Stewart has urged the Albanese Government to amend its penalty rates protection legislation to shut down potential avenues to circumvent it.
Saudi Arabia's Australian cultural mission has succeeded in sidelining a Federal Court judge from sitting on a full bench that is reviewing whether it is protected by diplomatic immunity from underpayment claims brought by 45 former employees.
A FWC full bench has dived into the legislative intent behind several key Fair Work Act provisions to find that a presidential member should have determined whether Corrections Victoria "in fact" dismissed a prison officer when it demoted and transferred him, instead of making her extension of time decision on the "assumption" it sacked him.
The Albanese Government is making it clear ahead of next week's economic reform roundtable it has no plans to act on a push by the ACTU and the Greens for a four-day work week, while the Productivity Commission says AI and robots could free-up aged care workers.
A full Federal Court has this afternoon thrown out a Retail and Fast Food Workers Union bid to overturn the FWC's approval of the Woolworths "rotten SDA sellout deal", which it claimed stripped workers' rights, froze wages and cut conditions.
Production and engineering workers at a Peabody underground coal mine near Wollongong have voted up a deal that secures a 15% pay rise over three years and retains job security measures, following strikes and an extended lockout.
A FWC full bench has ruled that Victoria's fire chief displayed an appearance of bias when he decided to suspend two workers for allegedly accessing private work emails at United Firefighters Union Victorian branch secretary Peter Marshall's request.
A father has failed to secure a production order in his pursuit of changes to the retail award to address a supermarket cutting his son's shifts in favour of younger workers, despite FWC warnings that award variation is not an appropriate avenue to address an individual workplace grievance.
In a significant finding on the integrity of the workplace umpire, a judge has ruled that a former union organiser and Labor MP rightly decided against recusing herself from hearing a same-job, same-pay application despite having described similar labour hire arrangements as a "rort" in Parliament.
