Senator Jane Hume will take up the IR portfolio in new Opposition Leader Angus Taylor's shadow ministry, replacing Tim Wilson, who will be shadow treasurer.
The Albanese Government's recent IR reforms aim to encourage cooperation between employers and unions, to foster more productive workplaces, in contrast to Alan Joyce's "adversarial approach" at Qantas, workplace relations minister Amanda Rishworth will say in a speech tonight.
A FWC member who ordered a meatworker's reinstatement wrongly discounted as hearsay evidence that he allegedly called his Pacific Islander colleagues "tree apes" and "black c-nts", a full bench has found.
The FWC has approved wide-ranging rule changes for the HSU in wake of former Victorian branch leader Diana Asmar's mismanagement and a failed merger of State branches.
ASX-listed services giant Ventia has achieved a "complete metamorphosis" of a freshly-acquired company's agreement by varying its terms instead of making a new one, in an application that posed an "Aristotelian form and substance problem" for the FWC.
A long-serving One Nation staffer can pursue his unfair dismissal claim, after the FWC accepted that PM Anthony Albanese's post-election decision to pare back the party's staffing "loaded the gun" for his firing under parliamentary employment provisions.
Australia's regulation of precarious workers is "world-leading" and we arguably have "the most progressive industrial relations legislation on the planet", but academics need to rebuild the IR discipline to address its erosion and the rise of human resource management, according to UNSW's Michael Quinlan.
