FWC general manager Murray Furlong has called for major construction companies to start playing their part in stamping out corruption in the industry, while the Wood inquiry will this week hear evidence from leaders of the AWU's Queensland branch and the Queensland Council of Unions.
The FWC has approved the amalgamation of the Australian Retailers Association and National Retail Association to form the Australian Retail Council, which will employ their combined heft in seeking to reduce members' compliance burden and holding overseas platforms to account.
The ASU will forge ahead with nationwide protests tomorrow despite the Australian Industry Group's accusations that it is engaging in unlawful retaliation and intimidation, ahead of a hearing of the SCHADS award gender undervaluation case on Monday.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has recommended that Master Builders Victoria consider more transparent disclosure of its finances, after it failed to reveal that the industry's redundancy fund is the source of most of the $10 million a year - more than 40% of its income - it receives in grants.
The proposed amalgamation of the Australian Retailers Association and National Retail Association to form the Australian Retail Council will go to a ballot next month, after a FWC decision today.
The Productivity Commission is urging parliamentarians to pause and potentially ditch moves to mandate guardrails for "high-risk AI", flying in the face of the recommendations of a government department and a union push for pre-agreed employment safeguards.
Employers are seeking work-from-home-related changes to the clerks award to make it easier to spread out working hours without requiring penalty rates, remove minimum engagement restrictions and overhaul meal and rest break provisions.
Union industrial officers are increasingly being supplanted by external IR lawyers, with the phenomenon most pronounced in "organising" unions, according to the principal of a boutique union-clientele law firm.
Shelving a major retail award conditions buy-out bid while the Albanese Government pursues penalty rate reforms would be a dereliction of duty, the Australian Retailers Association has told the FWC.
