The Albanese Government's revised legislation to to cap the concessional tax treatment for earnings from superannuation accounts with balances exceeding $3 million has passed unamended after winning Greens support.
WA Catholic education employers have won a rare voting request order allowing them to put a single interest multi-deal to a ballot despite the IEU's opposition, as the union accuses them of using the Secure Jobs tool as a "battering ram".
Economists, labour market researchers, and unions have hit back at claims more deregulation is the key to productivity growth, in submissions to a Senate inquiry.
The FWC has rejected the unfair dismissal claim of a Workpac on-hire trades assistant shunted from a BHP Coal mine while on approved leave, finding it a redundancy regardless of whether the host engaged someone else in the role.
The FWC has cleared the way for a worker to challenge his "unusual" temporary sacking, confirming an administrative error that unintentionally ousts an employee can still amount to a "dismissal at law".
The FWC has refused to grant BHP a sweeping order enabling it to transfer its in-house labour-hire workers to its vast array of Pilbara iron ore mines.
The Business Council is asking the Albanese Government to allow employers to delay by up to a month the time they have to make final notice and accrued but untaken annual leave payments, to modernise an outmoded regime designed for cash payments.
A NSW PSA legal officer accused of falsifying her timesheets while working from home has failed to halt a misconduct investigation, but the FWC has directed the union to appoint an independent third party to continue the probe.
The newly-released full ACTU submission to the NES review calls for the Albanese Government to reduce maximum weekly hours from 38 to 35, as a step towards a four-day week, along with considering a national long service leave standard.
A right-wing think tank has told a Senate inquiry that productivity is an increasingly unreliable measure and other statistics provide a better gauge of the economy's health.
