Three major employer groups have called for "strong consultation" after the Jobs and Skills Summit, when the Albanese Government will be developing its post-event employment white paper.
The Albanese Labor Government should establish an "independent body" to set enforceable standards for traditional transport operations, along with on-demand delivery and rideshare platform work, according to a broad industry-union coalition.
An Employsure manager is suing the IR advisory service for deciding against appointing her to a more senior role that she sought while on parental leave, accusing it of discriminating against her because of her pregnancy and impending family responsibilities.
In a breakthrough for the ACTU ahead of this week's Jobs and Skills Summit, the Council of Small Business has agreed to support multi-employer agreements, while the two will also work together to achieve "new options" for workplace flexibility.
Unions and the Business Council have revived their plan for a more streamlined agreement approval process, with ACTU secretary Sally McManus suggesting the result could be a "really simple" system that might be better than that envisaged when the Hawke-Keating Government devised the bargaining regime in the early 1990s, while IR Minister Tony Burke said today he has shifted from his "hardline" opposition to changing the BOOT.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus is seeking submissions on whether the Albanese Government should lower the Modern Slavery Act's $100 million reporting threshold and "more explicitly" spell out the "due diligence" steps companies should take to identify and address modern slavery, as part of a review of the legislation.
The AIPA says Qantas pilots have voted up, under threat of outsourcing, a newly-approved agreement variation that permits the flying kangaroo to apply existing fatigue rules for jets that fly six hours to its new generation Airbus A321XLRs that can be in the air for 11 hours.
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.
