The Greens will push to enshrine presumptions in the Fair Work Act that all workers are entitled to the same pay and conditions as employees and all work will be continuing unless there are sound operational business reasons against it, party leader Adam Bandt says.
The Albanese Labor Government is rushing through legislation to close a loophole that could add billions of the dollars to the defined benefit superannuation entitlements of about 10,000 federal public sector employees who have been posted overseas over the past three decades.
A former public health service chief executive who claimed discrimination on the basis of "severe depression" has failed to overturn a tribunal's finding that it lacks the power to hear his bid for reinstatement and compensation.
The Tasmanian Government's anti-protest legislation, recently introduced to parliament, could be turned against unions, according to the State's peak union body.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has this morning introduced legislation to insert 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave in the National Employment Standards, delivering on a Labor election promise.
The revised national construction code, which applies from today, takes away the power to grant exemptions and exclusion sanctions from ABC Commissioner Steve McBurney and invests them in Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke.
The Albanese Labor Government will on Thursday introduce legislation entitling all employees, including casuals, to an annual 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave from early next year.
The NT is planning to impose a positive duty on employers to eliminate discrimination, sexual harassment and victimisation, while it also intends to expunge an exemption that permits religious schools to discriminate against LGBTIQ+ teachers.
A proposal by Queensland's Palaszczuk Labor Government to remove gendered language from parental leave entitlements is the beginning of the end of "women" as a protected class at law and risks making mothers invisible, according to submissions on its IR Bill.
Food delivery platforms say "inappropriate" independent courier provisions in a Queensland IR Bill will fail gig workers, undermine the Federal Albanese Government's plans to boost protections and create a state versus national approach if passed into legislation.
