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The Albanese Government should expand the existing positive duty to compel employers to prevent discrimination on the basis of s-xual orientation or gender identity, the Australian Human Rights Commission has recommended in a report released on the transgender day of visibility.
Employers have described today's FWC decision to abolish junior rates for 18 to 20-year-olds as "disappointing" and a "financial blow", as the tribunal conceded the likelihood of a negative effect on employment of workers as businesses adjust to increased labour costs.
A jury has found a subsidiary of ASX-listed Mastermyne Group guilty of industrial manslaughter over the death of a mineworker at a Bowen Basin coal mine, in the first successful prosecution since the Queensland Government extended the laws to resources workplaces in 2020.
Unions and legal advocates are urging the Albanese Government to extend paid family and domestic violence leave to encompass s-xual and gender-based violence, boost its length, and enable more people to access it to support victim survivors.
Peak employer body ACCI will seek a 3.5% rise in the Annual Wage Review 2026 after chief executive Andrew McKellar described the ACTU's 5% claim as "self-defeating".
The Business Council is urging the Albanese Government to repeal part of its intractable bargaining determination framework, while warning of same-job, same-pay orders that risk "overcompensating" labour hire workers and imposing additional obligations where they are already receiving host rates, in its submission to the Closing Loopholes review.
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.
