The FWC has approved the SDA's plan to add three women-only roles to its national executive, to guarantee 25% of the majority-female union's national executive are women, up from the current 11%.
After a withering assessment of the Queensland justice department's performance management processes, the State IRC has over-ruled its refusal to make permanent an acting senior legal officer engaged on successive short-term contracts.
A disability support worker who lodged a general protections claim against a man with quadriplegia for allegedly forcing him to resign as a carer must pay part of his legal costs after holding out for too long on a settlement.
Grill'd is lauding a newly-approved agreement that it says will result in its workers being the best-paid fast food workers across the nation, while the SDA says that Grill'd only agreed not to systematically underpay workers after months of union pressure.
The workplace watchdog's power to hold franchisors to account for franchisees' underpayments has been bolstered, after a full Federal Court today threw out a challenge by the Bakers Delight chain.
The ACTU has slammed the Albanese Government's decision to dump its commitment to guaranteeing a weekly minimum of 30 paid hours for short-term workers on the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme.
The FWC has found a flexible working request invalid, because of its "tenuous" connection to the worker's caring responsibilities and the strain his absence would have imposed on other workers.
The general manager of a cosmetics services chain who held dual roles that in combination paid above the high-income threshold can pursue an unfair dismissal claim because it only relates to one of her positions, the FWC has held.
More women are being appointed to managerial roles but their high resignation rates are undermining gender equality gains, while occupational segregation remains a key driver of inequality, according to a new WGEA report.
A court has temporarily barred the NTEU from pursuing a FWC dispute application challenging a UTS decision to suspend enrolments into more than 100 courses, a month after SafeWork NSW lifted a prohibition notice pausing planned layoffs at the university.
