A leading gender and IR expert says Australian policymakers should "pay attention" to a UK parliamentary inquiry's recommendation that the Johnson Government make menopause a protected characteristic under anti-discrimination laws and that employers implement more menopause-friendly policies.
A leading employment law and IR academic says the Albanese Government needs to decide how it will go about "rebalancing" the FWC before it settles on a successor to President Iain Ross, suggesting it has three options.
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission has in winning broad-ranging suppression orders "strongly" rejected the claim by a former IT officer suing it over an alleged "sham" redundancy that such measures were pointless given potential witnesses could be readily identified through their LinkedIn profiles.
The FWC has speculated that a government business enterprise reviewing a stood-down employee's performance deliberately dragged its feet in the hope he would resign.
An employer has been given a final chance to respond without compulsion to concerns about a recently-approved deal, after a FWC bench dismissed an "unusual" application for it to recuse itself over perceived bias.
The FWC has promised today to provide "real-time" data on bargained pay rises, with plans to issue fortnightly reports on wage movements in enterprise agreement approval applications, with the first "proposed report" showing a 3.2% average annualised rise in the first two weeks of July, well ahead of the last official departmental number for the March quarter of 2.7%.
Westpac is holding out a $1000 incentive to encourage employees to vote up its proposed agreement that promises a 4% rise in January for employees earning less than $95,000, when inflation is forecast to reach almost 8%, but the FSU says it should be increasing its base pay offer as the union pursues a 6% boost.
A court has found that a union's head office is prevented by its own rules from hearing accusations of "gross misbehaviour" brought against a State divisional leader.
The FWC has extended time for a Virgin Australia employee's seven-minutes-late general protections claim after accepting that her "emotionally abusive" domestic relationship that made her "a prisoner in her own home" constituted an exceptional circumstance.
The nexus between low unemployment and rising wages is broken, with the "hydraulic pressure" of a tight labour market undermined by systemic "leaks" and "loopholes", according to workplace relations minister Tony Burke.
