Employers should be required to consider compensating or giving additional leave to workers who are unable to work from home, to offset savings remote workers make on commuting costs, a police union has told the inquiry into the Greens' WFH Bill.
Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth has intervened in the FWC's consideration of a same-job, same-pay dispute over protected rates of pay, telling a full bench today that on-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine should not be paid any less than directly employed workers with the same skills and experience.
Tasmania's peak business group says it is behind a coordinated campaign that prompted Launceston council to backtrack on an Australian-first in-principle deal enshrining a 30.4-hour four-day work week.
The FWC has approved a landmark single interest multi-deal covering two councils after one of them lost a Federal Court challenge to head it off, with the ASU now seeking to rope in others and replicate the "template for a fairer future" for regional workers.
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.
