A tribunal has ordered Queensland Health to re-run its selection process for a midwifery promotion position and remove the successful candidate from her new post, after it failed to give another front-runner a chance to respond to a referee's negative comment.
The Offshore Alliance and ETU are up in arms after Bechtel warned them that unless they drop their "intractable" 30% wage demands for the Pluto Train 2 Project by Monday, it will bar them from bargaining meetings and deal only with the AMWU and CFMEU.
The Victorian Government's new bill that restricts the use of non-disclosure agreements in settlements of workplace sexual harassment cases will enable workers to terminate them after a year, with just seven days notice.
The ACTU has told Coalition MPs Barnaby Joyce and Andrew Hastie to "get out of the way" after they sullied what was meant to be bipartisan support for legislation to guarantee paid parental leave for parents of stillborn children, as they seek to link it with late-term abortions.
The Australian Industry Group says that its clerks award WFH proposal is "far less drastic than the unions appear to suggest", in its newly-published response to ASU and ACTU concerns that it might conflict with the new penalty rates legislation and the NES.
A former Queensland Office of IR principal inspector has failed to halt disciplinary action over incendiary messages he exchanged with colleagues on the Signal app over plans to close his business unit, including saying he was ready to "b-tch-flog" a female boss and use a piece of "4x2 with rusty nails".
Victoria's Catholic school teachers and support staff have rejected a non-union agreement offer, while the IEU says support is growing for its application for a single interest bargaining authorisation through which it is seeking to secure a statewide deal.
Victoria's Allan Labor Government has today introduced legislation to restrict the use of non-disclosure agreements in settlements of workplace s-xual harassment cases.
Uber's "deactivation" practices have been put under the microscope again, with the FWC ordering it to reinstate a driver booted from the platform after the rideshare giant failed to properly put allegations to him that he kissed, hugged and flirted with drunk passengers.
A FWC full bench has overturned a ruling that due to an employee's lack of award coverage, her employer - which conceded that the SCHADS award applied - had no obligation to consult her before making her redundant.
