Employer groups have unleashed their fiercest criticism at the Albanese Government’s intractable bargaining regime, in submissions to the Closing Loopholes review, arguing it is unbalanced, rewards escalation and is causing the "most violent alarm".
A rope access technician has been ordered to pay $125,000 in costs after pursuing a failed underpayments and discrimination case described by the judge as "a textbook example of launching an action without reasonable cause".
The Albanese Government should consider expanding transition supports available to workers at closing coal mines and power stations and enable the Net Zero Economy Authority to collect information before the two-year closure trigger, the review of the just transition legislation has found in a newly-released report.
The FWC has backed a ferry operator's sacking of a customer service worker who proved unable to meet the requirements of her role due to deep vein thrombosis, finding it could not offer "reasonable adjustments" to accommodate her incapacity.
BHP says it has contingency plans in place to ensure continuity of power supply to its Pilbara mines and ports, as 60 workers who operate its remote electricity grid threaten what it says is its WA iron ore operation's first protected action this century.
The biggest mover on Labor's same-job, same-pay laws is using the Closing Loopholes review to call for a major expansion to include parity of conditions for on-hire workers, while capturing associated entities and tightening the exemption for service providers.
An early childhood education trainee has won more than $10,000 compensation after the FWC found her employer had no reason to sack her by text based on "vague" examples of misconduct and failure to complete a qualification for which she had not yet been assessed.
The RBA had no obligation to pay a senior employee during a seven-month period when he claimed to be "ready and willing" to work as long as it did not involve consecutive days, "high stress" assignments or meeting with HR, the FWC has found.
At its current pace, workplaces will not be free of racism for 118 years, a new report has found, and many employers fail to use the most effective measures to address and prevent racism.
A judge has flagged compensation of more than $600,000 for a former St Vincent de Paul Society senior manager unlawfully sacked following a "sham" HR probe, but declined to award more after finding she misled the court and exaggerated her incapacity.
