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.
A fair work commissioner has extended time for a worker who drove 170km to hand-deliver his unfair dismissal claim, saying "unfortunate" is too gentle a word for delays that left the original languishing in the tribunal's shared mailbox at Hobart's Commonwealth Courts building.
In submissions to the NES review, unions are pushing for the Albanese Government to add 10 days paid reproductive leave to the standards, with the backing of a Labor senator, while the Centre for Future Work is advocating for an additional 10 days paid carers leave.
In what stands as an object lesson in how not to handle performance reviews, the FWC has highlighted the role of "managerial cowardice" and a passive HR department while reinstating a senior academic who received an "exceeds expectations" score shortly before three colleagues formally complained about her conduct.
The Productivity Commission has renewed calls to shake up IR in Australia's ports - outlawing agreements that impose "excessive constraints on productivity" and "equipping the FWC for an extended role" - in a submission to a Senate inquiry.
A former Tech One manager who rejected a "genuinely commercially-based" $2.2 million settlement of his "objectively untenable" $55 million general protections claim is now facing what is likely to be a seven-figure costs order, after a Federal Court ruling.
The FWC's longest-serving member has provided a detailed exposition of the tribunal's approach to suppression orders, reinforcing that it is not merely about "public understanding" of her reasons for finding that an employer did not force an experienced HR manager to resign after less than five months in the job.
The Albanese Government should get rid of awards and make a strengthened NES the sole source of minimum employment conditions for all industries, the HR Nicholls Society has told in the NES review.
The Federal Department of Finance is relying on figures in a report bankrolled by one of the world's biggest artificial intelligence companies to back its claim that the technology can massively boost public sector productivity.
