One Nation would permit individuals to withdraw a quarter of their 12% in super contributions for three years at a time if they have a mortgage or are renters, party leader Pauline Hanson said today, underlining in a line stolen from the Coalition that it is "their money".
In a significant decision on the Fair Work Act's geographical reach, FWC president Adam Hatcher has questioned whether workers need to be both employed by an Australian company and perform work in the country before enjoying the legislation's protections.
The Albanese Government's draft legislation to outlaw post-employment restraints will amend the Competition and Consumer Act's cartel framework and introduce civil and criminal penalties for breaches, alongside changes to the Fair Work Act to outlaw non-compete clauses.
The FWC has upheld a council's decision to refuse a worker's flexible work request, finding it had reasonable business grounds to align rosters with its revised operating hours and increase employee presence for safety reasons.
The FWC has taken fewer than 250 words to dismiss a worker's anti-bullying application, finding his complaints about "negative remarks" and being held to a dress code by a NDIS provider "devoid of merit".
A tribunal has upheld the suspension without pay of a nurse accused of s-xually assaulting a co-worker in their shared employer-provided accommodation, despite his claims it would be unfair when the allegations are "utterly untested".
In an indication that the Qantas group didn't abandon its hardline IR approach with the departure of Alan Joyce, its low-cost subsidiary is threatening to put a unilateral deal to its ASU-covered customer service workforce as it votes on industrial action to coincide with school holidays and the AFL and NRL finals series.
The FWC has refused permission for an aviation company and a former manager to be represented by lawyers and an unpaid layperson after they volleyed complaints about each other and offered-up "irrelevant material".
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has started an investigation into whether John Setka, the former Victorian branch secretary of the under-administration CFMEU construction and general division, has flouted stringent "anti-avoidance" provisions that might lead to imprisonment by making threats against those now running the union.
