A Human Rights Bill that would require the NSW Government to consider human rights when developing legislation lacks a right to organise through trade unions and its consideration of workers is "underdone", a teachers' union has told a parliamentary inquiry.
Early decisions in the FWC's unfair deactivation jurisdiction are beginning to establish "a coherent framework" for protecting employee-like platform workers, a new study finds.
The FWC has made withering criticisms of a law firm principal who summarily dismissed a senior associate "on a knee-jerk basis, in some form of agitated state, without any consideration (let alone careful consideration) that would ordinarily accompany a decision to dismiss a senior employee".
Early decisions in the FWC's unfair deactivation jurisdiction are beginning to establish "a coherent framework" for protecting employee-like platform workers, a new study finds.
The Wood inquiry interim report's recommendation to establish a regulator flies in the face of the union administrator's comments this week, while its draft building industry code extends beyond the 2013 code that provides its foundation.
The Albanese Government is seeking submissions on best practice guidance for adopting artificial intelligence in workplaces, but the Centre for Future Work's Fiona Macdonald says mandatory standards are needed to protect workers.
The Crisafulli Government's proposed IR Bill "represents the most significant attack on worker rights and entitlements since the Newman era", Maurice Blackburn said in its submission to an inquiry into the legislation, as an inquiry into the legislation kicks off today.
As it faces a bill of more than $170 million to restore underpayments to 66,000 current and former workers, NAB will make what the FWO says is the largest ever contrition payment of $2 million to Canberra's coffers as part of an enforceable undertaking that includes a novel obligation to re-write complex enterprise agreement clauses that contributed to the breaches.
Despite "significant legislative and policy change" over the last decade, "pregnancy, breastfeeding and family responsibilities discrimination remain high and barriers to sharing care persist", the Human Rights Commission says in a new report that pushes for further legislative amendments.
CFMEU construction and general division administrator Michael Crosby has expelled former Victorian branch secretary John Setka for his alleged "shameful" misappropriation of union revenue and diversion of it to his own companies, but the former leader rejects the claims as "absolute bullshit and lies".
