As the ASU prepares to bargain for a major single interest multi-deal covering at least eight Melbourne councils, the FWC has rejected a bid for a supported bargaining authorisation covering two local government gardening service providers.
Electors perceived as "Trump-like" the Dutton Opposition's plans to axe 40,000 public sector jobs and scrap work from home for federal public servants, with the WFH policy fuelling views that the Liberals were "unsympathetic to the needs of women", according to a damning review of the Liberal Party's 2025 federal election campaign.
Forthcoming Victorian laws providing rights to work from home two days a week will apply to businesses big and small, according to Premier Jacinta Allan.
The mother of a young child had "understandable" reasons for wanting to make her part-time job completely remote so her partner could take up better opportunities interstate, but the FWC has found insufficient connection between her caring duties and her job to empower it to arbitrate the flexible work dispute.
UK employers might have to pay workers up to eight weeks compensation if they unreasonably refuse a flexible work request, under changes proposed by the Starmer Government.
Working from home arrangements have been a big success in the Australian Public Service, with a mere handful of disputes about flexible work requests, the CPSU has told a Senate inquiry into a bill aimed at enshrining WFH rights.
A judge has refused to accept the CFMEU's claim that it can't admit to entry right breaches at a major project because "it does not know", pointing to the union's "cursory" efforts to scrutinise body-worn camera footage from its own officials.
A worker has been allowed to proceed with an out-of-time unfair dismissal application after his employer failed to tell him he had been taken off the roster, "dangled" the prospect of future shifts in front of him for almost a year, and led him to believe he remained on the books.
