The House of Representatives has passed legislation to reduce the FWC's workload and introduce procurement arrangements enabling the Albanese Government to prefer suppliers with enterprise agreements, while the Greens have backed a motion to give the Senate just an hour to debate it before a final vote on Monday.
Victoria's Allan Government has introduced legislation to create a fair jobs code for local government and to extend Commonwealth flexible working arrangements, pay secrecy, and fixed term and casual employment provisions to public sector workers.
The Victorian working from home legislation "aims to strike a balance" between making remote work available to more workers and the "operational realities" of businesses, partly by creating a comprehensive "reasonableness" test, Premier Jacinta Allan told State Parliament today.
The Albanese Government should repeal the wage theft offence and focus on simplifying the workplace relations system, the Australian Industry Group has told a Senate inquiry, while ACCI says that the absence of prosecutions shows that the "crime wave" used to justify the legislation "was false and misleading".
Legislation introduced this morning by the Albanese Government promises to reduce the FWC's "unsustainable" workload, with key measures including a bypass of a full Federal Court ruling that has increased the tribunal's burden.
The Albanese Government has heard the FWC's cry for help as it prepares to introduce legislation tomorrow aimed at putting the brakes on, and in some instances reversing the tribunal's AI-fuelled workload.
Victoria's imminent restrictions on non-disclosure agreements might help curb workplace s-xual harassment secrecy, but an expert says their ultimate success hinges on lawyers abandoning an "entrenched culture" around settlements.
Large employers are set to gain an extra 12 months to bed down new "genuine and measurable" gender equality targets before they have to identify fresh ones and start the next three-year reporting cycle.
A full Federal Court has confirmed that class actions cannot start until members are correctly identified but can "transmogrify", after Adero Law conceded the definition contained in a store managers' claim against The Reject Shop left the group "empty".
