The FWC has backed an ASX-listed early education provider's decision to reject a worker's request for flexible arrangements to enable her to keep picking up her children from school each day, instead of moving to a less-accommodating rotating roster.
BHP's in-house labour hire company has been fined $15,000 and ordered to pay 85 production employees between $800 and $2400 each in compensation for unreasonably requiring them to work across Christmas holidays.
The Federal Government's long service leave scheme for the black coal industry has won special leave from the High Court to challenge a full Federal Court judgment that it says has significant implications for the LSL eligibility of shotfiring and explosive services workers.
The FWC's approach to assessing flexible work disputes is potentially undermining workers' rights to plan ahead, an academic has warned, after the tribunal held that a Sydney Water employee could not make such a request in the lead-up to his 55th birthday, and found a father ineligible until he finalised his custody arrangement.
A Coalition private senator's bill sold as tackling the retirement savings gender gap is a ruse that "will allow already very wealthy Australians to funnel even more of their wealth into their super", according to the Greens, while Labor damned it for "empower[ing] the generationally wealthy".
Employers will be required from July next year to make super contributions within seven calendar days of paying their workers' wages and salaries, after enabling legislation passed Parliament today.
The ACTU has told Coalition MPs Barnaby Joyce and Andrew Hastie to "get out of the way" after they sullied what was meant to be bipartisan support for legislation to guarantee paid parental leave for parents of stillborn children, as they seek to link it with late-term abortions.
A FWC full bench has overturned a ruling that due to an employee's lack of award coverage, her employer - which conceded that the SCHADS award applied - had no obligation to consult her before making her redundant.
The FWC has upbraided a small business owner for informing a supervisor through an email drafted with help from ChatGPT that it had decided to retrench her, finding that sacking a worker via such a "cursory" means fails "to adhere to basic standards of decency".
