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.
A FWC full bench has expressed a provisional view that it should make an intractable bargaining determination reflecting the employer's proposal, other than for a previously agreed term the UWU "resiled" from.
"Serious" flaws in an employer's s-xual harassment investigation, in tandem with its expectation the worker would continue working alongside her alleged harasser, forced her to resign, the FWC has found.
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.
A commissioner who holds 200 Woolworths shares has refused to recuse herself from an anti-bullying case involving the supermarket giant, because the amount of shares she owns is insignificant.
The FWC has rejected a bullying complaint after finding the Department of Finance put the worker on a three-day week, while he recovered from a previous "toxic" job, so he could spend the other two days "trying to resolve his workplace grievances".
A former parliamentary officer who took a "shock and awe" approach and went "nuclear" after a federal MP made him redundant post-election has lost his bid to pursue an adverse action case in tandem with a discrimination claim.
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".
A psychic reader who earned just $25 in the final 12 months he worked on an online platform and regularly failed to meet its minimum hours of work requirement is unable to pursue his unfair dismissal claim after the FWC held he is an independent contractor.
