The FWC has awarded $15,000 compensation to a couple sacked within hours of each other for allegedly bullying the same manager by invoking a "summoning ritual" involving a pentagram and rubber ducks, and "mocking" her in a workplace chat group.
The Federal Government ended the term of former DEWR secretary Natalie James, making her eligible for a payout of 12 months of her $932,000-plus annual salary, less super contributions, a PM&C official told a Senate Estimates hearing in Canberra today.
Shadow IR Minister Tim Wilson is predicting the "full inflationary consequences" of Labor's IR policies to be realised this year in the form of a wage-price spiral, at the same time AI is presenting a major opportunity to boost productivity.
The FWC has upheld a mining company's sacking of a worker for seeking advice from a colleague over a widely-heard two-way radio network about how to persuade a partner "to agree to an-l s-x".
The FWC has accepted that an eight-months-old petition from Ampol workers and the account of a union delegate as proof a majority wants to bargain, rejecting the employer's objections that the document had passed its use-by date.
"Extreme heat" story back online; Date set for FWO's SRG prosecution; Labour productivity down in 2024-25; Real wages to go backwards until mid-2027; ACTU to press for higher pay rises to tackle housing costs; and Senate votes down anti-price-gouging Bill.
The FWC has ordered Uber Eats to reactivate a driver who offered a customer money to kiss him, finding it failed to "squarely" provide him the details of the allegations.
A NDIS-registered medical provider's "frivolous" spending on "staff wellbeing" birthday celebrations and "recklessness" in hiring new staff while struggling to meet a speech pathologist's redundancy entitlements has helped undo its bid to slash her payout.
The Albanese Government has appointed an outsider to replace Natalie James as the secretary of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, following her sudden exit last year.
Divisions have opened up in the leadership of the UWU as elections approach, with national secretary Tim Kennedy backing a rank and file member for president in the upcoming election, rather than the incumbent, Jo-anne Schofield.
