Parliament has today passed with amendments the Albanese Government's legislation to create a pathway for employers to pay historical debts related to unpaid portable long service leave levies that responds to two Federal Court decisions.
The United Firefighters Union is denying that it engaged "removed" former head of the CFMEU construction and general division's Queensland branch, Michael Ravbar, as the FWC launches a probe into whether it did so in breach of the RO Act.
The just transition authority has applied to the FWC for a determination to support workers at the Yallourn power station, which is scheduled to close in mid-2028.
The Minns Government has made four new appointments to the NSW IRC and promoted a commissioner to deputy president, as new powers take effect that will increase the tribunal's workload.
The FWC has endorsed AGL's grounds for rejecting a customer service consultant's flexible work request, but nevertheless ordered it to conduct a trial requiring her to attend the office for four hours on just 12 occasions over six months so she can continue to care for her incontinent, dementia-affected mother.
The Greens are seeking to disallow a part of the payday super regulations that it says reintroduces discriminatory provisions exempting large employers, with McDonald's the leading example, from having to pay super to under-18s working up to 30 hours a week.
New South Wales should set up a standalone labour hire licensing scheme within 12 months that draws on the strengths of the Queensland and Victorian regimes and would give it the best opportunity to influence a long-promised national scheme, according to a new McKell Institute report.
A FWC full bench has acknowledged its "deference" to a tribunal member's factual findings in upholding the reinstatement of a stevedore accused of telling a colleague he put his c-ck in their Subway sandwich, while already on a warning for showing pictures of bikini-clad female colleagues to co-workers.
Legislation to ease the FWC's surging workload and introduce procurement arrangements enabling the Albanese Government to prefer suppliers with enterprise agreements has passed federal parliament less than a month after its introduction.
