Men in the finance sector are starting to take paid parental leave at similar or higher rates than women when employers offer gender-neutral schemes, according to a FSU report that calls for the scrapping of primary and secondary carer-based models.

The Federal Court has run out of patience with a litigious solicitor whose numerous cases include "scandalous" allegations about a law firm and a FWC member, effectively blocking him from pursuing any further claims, to safeguard the legal system's "finite resources".

Psychosocial hazards are more damaging when workers feel that speaking up will not lead to change, academics have found in a new study.

A FWC full bench has thrown out a nurse's challenge to his sacking, endorsing earlier findings that he improperly used personal leave to campaign in a union election.

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.