ACTU-backed protected action ballot agent Fair Vote has threatened to take resources employer peak body AREEA to court if it does not withdraw "baseless" accusations about data "security" and harvesting extra personal details of workers.

The ACTU is considering lodging an urgent case with the FWC seeking an increase to vehicle allowances in modern awards to address the Iran War-related spike in fuel costs.

An employer that refused to engage in the FWC's consideration of an unfair dismissal case has been ordered to pay $40,000 to a supervisor sacked for letting employees use a shackled emergency exit with an A4 printed "no entry, no exit" sign affixed to it.

To address the burden imposed by an increasing number of self-represented litigants and "the extremities of their behaviour", the Federal Court is considering undertaking more intensive case management and using AI to improve the quality of their submissions, according to its chief justice.

The Albanese Government should expand the existing positive duty to compel employers to prevent discrimination on the basis of s-xual orientation or gender identity, the Australian Human Rights Commission has recommended in a report released on the transgender day of visibility.

Employers have described today's FWC decision to abolish junior rates for 18 to 20-year-olds as "disappointing" and a "financial blow", as the tribunal conceded the likelihood of a negative effect on employment of workers as businesses adjust to increased labour costs.

A jury has found a subsidiary of ASX-listed Mastermyne Group guilty of industrial manslaughter over the death of a mineworker at a Bowen Basin coal mine, in the first successful prosecution since the Queensland Government extended the laws to resources workplaces in 2020.

A FWC full bench has today rejected a union bid to improve junior rates for under-18s, but has acceded to a request to axe them for over-18s.

In a decision with potentially broad implications for NSW public sector workforce models, the State's Industrial Court has declared a long-serving Correctional Services casual a continuing employee after rejecting arguments his contractual label is decisive.

Legislation to respond to the transport fuel price crisis by enabling the FWC to fast-track road transport contractual chain order applications to lift rates for truck drivers has passed federal parliament late today.