The Wood inquiry interim report's recommendation to establish a regulator flies in the face of the union administrator's comments this week, while its draft building industry code extends beyond the 2013 code that provides its foundation.
The Albanese Government is seeking submissions on best practice guidance for adopting artificial intelligence in workplaces, but the Centre for Future Work's Fiona Macdonald says mandatory standards are needed to protect workers.
As it faces a bill of more than $170 million to restore underpayments to 66,000 current and former workers, NAB will make what the FWO says is the largest ever contrition payment of $2 million to Canberra's coffers as part of an enforceable undertaking that includes a novel obligation to re-write complex enterprise agreement clauses that contributed to the breaches.
Despite "significant legislative and policy change" over the last decade, "pregnancy, breastfeeding and family responsibilities discrimination remain high and barriers to sharing care persist", the Human Rights Commission says in a new report that pushes for further legislative amendments.
The Crisafulli Government's proposed IR Bill "represents the most significant attack on worker rights and entitlements since the Newman era", Maurice Blackburn said in its submission to an inquiry into the legislation, as an inquiry into the legislation kicks off today.
CFMEU construction and general division administrator Michael Crosby has expelled former Victorian branch secretary John Setka for his alleged "shameful" misappropriation of union revenue and diversion of it to his own companies, but the former leader rejects the claims as "absolute bullshit and lies".
The construction industry opposes the CFMEU administrator's call for the Albanese Government to lift the ban on multi-employer bargaining in the sector and goes further, saying the provisions should be expunged from the Fair Work Act because they undermine the statute's focus on enterprise-based bargaining.
As Qantas moves to outsource and offshore about 850 corporate jobs, including HR, finance and marketing roles, in league with accelerating its use of AI, the ACTU has welcomed Federal Government plans for "world-leading" AI standards legislation but says more is needed to protect exposed workers.
The CFMEU administration breaches ILO conventions in multiple ways and has reduced the construction and general division to a union in name only, according to new analysis by a labour law scholar and former national legal officer with the union.
A full Federal Court has upheld a finding that the former general manager of a health and aged care labour hire company is entitled to a $366,000 profit-share, but has quashed a costs order arising from the employer's abandoned claim that she breached a post-employment restraint.
