The AEU's Victorian branch says an Allan Government offer to lift public school teachers' pay by up to 32% over four years will put them ahead of their NSW counterparts and is "worthy" of members' endorsement.
The Ai Group is asking the FWC's expert panel to restrict pay rises for minimum wage and award-reliant workers to an inflation-lagging 3.9%, branding the ACTU's revised claim for a 6% increase "reckless".
Fortescue is seeking to strike back against union efforts to force it into bargaining, launching court action that has now sparked a counter-suit from the AWU and ETU, seeking orders to compel it to kickstart the process by issuing a bargaining notice.
Queensland Rail says "the public has lost" after it and the Crisafulli Government again failed to stop industrial action hitting trains through to the end of June, despite the FWC accepting it will affect this weekend's NRL Magic Round and might pose safety risks.
An academic says employers' use of multi-functional AI systems without including HR and workers in decision-making is handing power to algorithms, tech vendors and IT teams, creating far-reaching "unintended consequences".
A federal court judge has ordered a contractor and a customer to pay an employee $116,000 in compensation and penalties for targeting him with "h-mophobic and s-xualised statements", in "a very serious example of s-xual harassment at work".
Following one of the country's longest-running bargaining disputes and the AMWU's use of a majority support determination to force Cochlear back to the table, the FWC has approved a new deal covering the hearing implants giant for the first time in 20 years.
A New Zealand resident employed by an Australian-registered business has failed to win extra time to file an unfair dismissal claim held up by his "dual jurisdiction misapprehension".
The ACTU has upped the pay rise it is seeking in the annual wage review from 5% to 6% in response to inflationary pressures flowing from the Middle East war.
A taxi driver is ineligible to make an unfair deactivation claim because he has greater bargaining power and more control over his work than gig workers, the FWC has ruled after closely examining legislative definitions of "digital labour platform" and "employee-like workers".
