The Federal Department of Finance is relying on figures in a report bankrolled by one of the world's biggest artificial intelligence companies to back its claim that the technology can massively boost public sector productivity.
As the ASU prepares to bargain for a major single interest multi-deal covering at least eight Melbourne councils, the FWC has rejected a bid for a supported bargaining authorisation covering two local government gardening service providers.
The FWC has stayed a decision preventing a HSU branch under administration from continuing to pay Labor Party affiliation fees, agreeing the resulting reduction in ALP state conference delegates would "significantly" dilute its members' ability to influence policy.
The ATO has failed to convince a full Federal Court that a grammar school's final payout to an early learning centre assistant did not qualify as a tax-free "genuine redundancy" sum because the employer still needed another employee to perform her duties.
Electors perceived as "Trump-like" the Dutton Opposition's plans to axe 40,000 public sector jobs and scrap work from home for federal public servants, with the WFH policy fuelling views that the Liberals were "unsympathetic to the needs of women", according to a damning review of the Liberal Party's 2025 federal election campaign.
Employers are failing to analyse and respond to the drivers of the gender pay gap, including a major contributor - discretionary payments - the Workplace Gender Equality Agency said today in in its latest report.
Forthcoming Victorian laws providing rights to work from home two days a week will apply to businesses big and small, according to Premier Jacinta Allan.
The mother of a young child had "understandable" reasons for wanting to make her part-time job completely remote so her partner could take up better opportunities interstate, but the FWC has found insufficient connection between her caring duties and her job to empower it to arbitrate the flexible work dispute.
