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Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth is seeking feedback within 24 hours on her proposed determination for the TWU/ARTIO contractual chain application to fast-track fuel price relief for truck drivers and transport operators.
Legislation to respond to the transport fuel price crisis by enabling the FWC to fast-track road transport contractual chain order applications to lift rates for truck drivers has passed federal parliament late today.
The Albanese Government has again kept its election promise to urge the FWC's Annual Wage Review bench to order real wage increases for award-reliant and minimum wage workers that keep pace with the cost of living.
The ACTU is seeking a 5% rise in award rates and the federal minimum wage to keep pace with cost-of-living pressures "that have gotten a lot tougher" with the fuel price rises from the Middle East war and interest rate hikes.
The Albanese Government will amend the Fair Work Act to fast-track applications by unions and transport operators to win "emergency" supply chain orders from the FWC to raise rates to keep pace with surging fuel prices, driven by the Middle East war.
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.
The Albanese Government has announced that DEWR deputy secretary Tania Rishniw will serve as the department's acting secretary when secretary Natalie James' departs next month, eighteen months before her term expires.
A House of Representatives committee has begun an inquiry into the "operation and adequacy" of the National Employment Standards, after a referral from Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth.
The Coalition is struggling to send a clear message on how it intends to shed 41,000 public service jobs if it wins the federal election, sidestepping claims by its campaign spokesperson that voluntary redundancies have always been part of its policy.
Former federal Workplace Relations Minister Chris Evans has been appointed Australia's first Anti-Slavery Commissioner, responsible for improving victim support and helping employers address supply-chain risks such as forced labour and debt bondage.
