Long-serving RTBU NSW branch leader Alex Claassens is set to become national secretary following the resignation of Mark Diamond, whom the organisation credits with "transforming" it and resisting Coalition attempts to thwart the union movement.
The FWC has refused a six-day extension for a BCF store manager to challenge her sacking, but indicated that it might have granted it if a doctor who wrote a letter outlining her mental health issues had been called to give evidence.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has expressed concern about possible confusion arising from the inclusion in all awards of the new right to disconnect outside of working hours, when some awards "specifically contemplate" out-of-hours contact.
The FWC has welcomed a new member "honoured" to have worked at a law firm founded in the 1940s by a Communist she considers herself lucky enough to have interviewed in his final years.
The Albanese Government will introduce laws to allow the CFMEU's manufacturing division to demerge if members vote for it, with the ACTU claiming "Mr Setka's personal grudges" have led to an exit push that "cannot be resolved any other way".
Master Builders Victoria has defended a new "industry template agreement" struck with the CFMEU, arguing it delivers simplified common clauses and "greater flexibility in engagement".
Victoria's Parliament has begun an inquiry into workplace surveillance, to examine the extent to which employers collect, share, store, sell, disclose and dispose of surveillance data, the role of artificial intelligence , and whether there should be dedicated State workplace surveillance laws.
A senior FWC member has rounded on a national business's HR team for the "crude" and disrespectful process it followed to make one of its own members redundant, suggesting it engage in some "sober reflection".
A company did not sack a worker for alleged safety breaches and unprofessional behaviour, but rather took unlawful adverse action when it decided to dismiss him because its national HR manager took his queries about pay and flexible work as "badgering" and harassment, a court has ruled.
The FWC is seeking feedback on proposed undertakings that expunge an Aldi agreement's labour hire clauses, deemed invalid by the SDA because they try to circumvent same-job, same-pay provisions recently introduced into the Fair Work Act.
