A employee paid $362,500 to settle a common law claim after her s-xual assault and r-pe at work has won the all-clear to continue a related s-xual harassment and discrimination claim under equal opportunity legislation.
Victoria's Parliament has passed legislation to establish a special prosecutor to assist the Kourakis Royal Commission into misconduct in the construction industry and expand IBAC's powers, but a Bill targeting unregistered unions has stalled in the upper house with no sitting days remaining before the election.
RBA monetary policy board member and former FWC president Iain Ross is leading South Australia's royal commission into artificial intelligence, which will consider matters including the effect of the technology on the labour market and work practices.
Labor will release legislation for a wide-ranging labour hire licensing scheme within 100 days of its return at the March election, Minns Government IR Minister Sophie Cotsis promised today.
A court has awarded more than $500,000 in penalties to an 80-year-old former pistol club manager paid for more than a decade just $250 a week, from which the employer deducted $100 as rent for the on-site mobile home she lived in with her disabled son.
CFMEU construction and general division administrator Michael Crosby says in a report to Parliament that the union's culture is changing, but success "is not yet uniform" across the country and "serious regulation" is needed to stop bad actors rising again.
The FWC has declined to extend time by 13 seconds for a prison guard sacked for failing to disclose his involvement in a s-xual harassment case that resulted in a young worker receiving $125,000 compensation.
As unions pursue an intractable bargaining bid for BHP's Port Hedland iron ore export operations, the FWC will today hear the company's application for bargaining orders against the ETU, alleging it failed to negotiate in good faith.
Workers who have been s-xually harassed are waiting years for their complaints to be heard because of a surge in cases and a failure by the Federal Government to increase funding to enable the Australian Human Rights Commission to deal with them promptly, according to the ETU.
The FWC has extended time for an employee to lodge her late adverse action claim because she tried twice to file it online within time and twice more soon afterwards, before fronting the registry and lodging it in person.
