Wages in private sector agreements approved in the September quarter remained stuck at 2.9% a year, defying labour shortages and inflationary pressure, according to DEWR data.
The Federal Court has restrained a Federal agency from sacking an employee it accused of lying about the disciplinary action that led to her resigning from her previous APS job.
A judge has dismissed a worker's claims of disability discrimination and adverse action and upheld his sacking for aggressive workplace behaviour, finding that he should have told his employer upfront of his mental health issues and his autism diagnosis.
The FWC has found that a Boeing subsidiary unfairly dismissed an unvaccinated worker because it should first have completed its consideration of whether it could redeploy him.
McDonald's' evidence to the Senate work and care inquiry today raised some "big issues" for the committee to consider, including the extent of its control over franchisees' workplace practices, an absence of sick leave and "unclear" paid parental leave entitlements, according its chair.
Target has paid workers a $400 lump sum bonus after they voted up a proposed four-year deal to replace its 2012 "zombie" agreement, with conditions, wages and pay rises to be tightly pinned to the retail award.
The FWC has found that the Victorian lawyers for an ACT worker who lived in NSW made her unfair dismissal in time, after they delayed her application by three days because of public holidays and a weekend.
The CPSU is pushing the Albanese Government to bring forward to the start of next year its promised return to centralised bargaining for common terms and conditions in the Australian Public Sector.
Submissions close next month for a Senate inquiry into the Albanese Government's first tranche of changes to federally-funded paid parental leave, which expands access for partners and higher income earners while enabling parents to spread it out in multiple blocks as small as a day at a time.
