The Federal Government needs to tackle the 18% Indigenous pay gap using the same "deliberate and sustained" approach that it has taken with the gender pay gap, to prevent it from persisting "from generation to generation", a new report providing the "most complete picture" of the disparity has found.
The FWC has rejected a multi-employer bargaining bid for a dozen electrical contracting employers and the ETU, finding the agreement did not serve the public interest because it could undermine productivity and market competition.
The Federal Court has ordered a sacked senior HR manager to pay his former employer $45,000 in costs on a party-basis, after it rejected his AI-infected, meritless, "doomed to fail" bid for a judicial review of two FWC rulings.
A worker who smashed a glass over her colleague's head has failed to win extra time to challenge her sacking, after she blamed the 16-day delay on her "deep involvement" in associated criminal proceedings.
Agreements in the private sector are delivering pay rises below 4% as early signs emerge of waning bargaining activity in the sector, according to DEWR data released today.
Earnings are not rising fast enough to keep up with housing and other cost of living expenses, according to a co-author of the latest HILDA report, which says many workers are also feeling overskilled and overeducated for their jobs.
DEWR expects the seven hot-desks it will provide for every 10 non-SES employees at its new Canberra HQ will prove sufficient given that only four out of 10 attend at the moment on average.
The UK's Burnham Government will introduce a requirement for employers to meet with workers who make flexible working requests, with the goal of reaching an agreement, as part of a process they must follow before rebuffing them.
Victoria's Kourakis royal commission into the construction sector has appointed an acting assistant commissioner and already held closed hearings in order to gather confidential information, it revealed at its first official hearing today.
