The Albanese Government has confirmed it has not undertaken any work to pursue the promised introduction of a Federal portable leave scheme since it "paused" consultation on the entitlement last year.
Employers will be required from July next year to make super contributions within seven calendar days of paying their workers' wages and salaries, under legislation introduced today by the Albanese Government.
The Albanese Government has this morning introduced legislation to ensure that, unless expressly agreed otherwise, workers will not lose out on employer-funded paid parental leave if their child is stillborn or dies soon after birth.
A FWC full bench has rejected an employer's challenge to a finding that it must grant an employee's flexible work request, upholding a decision that reaffirms the precedence of NES provisions even when inconsistent with the terms of an enterprise agreement.
Later-in-life events rather than child-rearing alone contribute to women retiring with lower super balances, and the government needs to take "urgent action" to prevent women from continuing to fall behind, a new report finds.
The FWC has today ruled a paramedic ineligible for primary carers' parental leave to tend to for his six-month old baby, because the enterprise agreement covering him only enables carers of newborns to access the entitlement.
Adero Law says it is investigating a potential class action against the Seven Network after "numerous" current and former employees approached it to report potential underpayment, misclassification and unpaid breaks concerns.
The ETU's WA branch is pushing to bargain for a separate agreement for continuing electrical, instrumentation or plumbing workers at the massive Pluto 2 LNG expansion, to uncouple from employees who will be demobilised as the construction phase ends, and is urging workers to vote down a pay offer that "does not pass the pub test".
With the FWC seeking feedback by early next month on whether to hold off on reviewing its insertion of right to disconnect terms into awards, a leading employment and IR barrister and former critic of the legislation says the lack of test cases is "remarkable".
