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A FWC member wrongly concluded that he lacked the power to hear the case of a university employee sacked for refusing to comply with COVID-19 vaccination directions, a full bench has found.
A new Labor MP has described her personal experience of the "ache of insecure work" in the tertiary education sector to reinforce why it has become one of the primary targets in the Albanese Government's legislative agenda.
ALP senator Linda White hopes that Foreign Minister Penny Wong has forgiven her for the "relentless" equal pay campaign she helped successfully wage a decade ago when at the ASU and the party's current Senate leader had responsibility for finances in the Gillard Government.
Former Coalition staffer Rachelle Miller has followed a $650,000 settlement with the Commonwealth with a plea for MPs to support the establishment of an independent body to enforce codes of conduct in Federal parliamentary workplaces.
A large employer had no need to pay for external lawyers when it could have relied on its HR team to argue against a former employee's "straightforward" vaccination case, the FWC has found.
It would be "very surprising" if NSW IR Minister Damien Tudehope received advice indicating that his federal counterpart might have sought to improperly influence the FWC when he wrote to it last week to alert it to agreement termination changes the Government decided at the jobs summit, according to Adelaide University Professor of Law, Andrew Stewart.
The ACCC has secured a maximum $750,000 fine against the CFMMEU for breaching competition laws when it pressured a major construction company to boycott a non-union subcontractor.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has today written to FWC President Iain Ross to advise of "impending" legislative changes that will prevent employers using terminations as a bargaining tactic.
Employers says an Albanese Government decision to boost skilled migrant numbers by more than 20% this financial year is a "win" for advocacy at the jobs summit, while Labor says there is "consensus" it needs to raise the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold.
The FWC has approved the termination of a small business's agreement after a tribunal member took the rare step of inviting workers to attend a teleconference where he spelled out the implications of reverting to the award.
