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.
Victoria's Allan Labor Government has introduced a Bill to boost the ability of the State's Labour Hire Authority to prevent people with links to criminal organisations from operating labour hire businesses and to make it a criminal offence to retaliate against those who speak out.
Employers will be required from July next year to make super contributions within seven calendar days of paying their workers' wages and salaries, under legislation introduced today by the Albanese Government.
The Albanese Government has this morning introduced legislation to ensure that, unless expressly agreed otherwise, workers will not lose out on employer-funded paid parental leave if their child is stillborn or dies soon after birth.
Consultation on the Albanese Government's plan to ban non-competes from 2027 has revealed employers' use of "cascading" restraint clauses is significantly hindering worker mobility even when their enforceability is questionable, according to Assistant Productivity and Competition Minister Andrew Leigh.
NSW IR Minister Sophie Cotsis says a Bill providing for the CFMEU State branch's mining and energy division and its manufacturing division to disamalgamate will guard against threats or "adverse conduct", while avoiding overlapping eligibility rules for at least a decade.
The Albanese Government's legislation to protect award penalty and overtime rates, passed by Parliament on Thursday, has now become law after Governor-General Sam Mostyn granted Royal Assent, while the workplace protection orders legislation is set to be considered by the Senate.
The Albanese Government's legislation to protect award penalty and overtime rates has passed both houses of parliament, after the Senate this morning endorsed it without further amendments.
