Casuals in regular, continung employment should be entitled to paid leave and those in genuinely erratic work an "unpredictability bonus", the Centre for Future Work argues in its submission to the Closing Loopholes review.
The FAAA is calling for a further tightening of the Closing Loopholes reforms, warning that offshoring arrangements and other tactics risk being used to sidestep or undermine the "same job, same pay" regime.
The ACTU is backing calls to allow media and arts contractors to access minimum standards orders regardless of whether they use digital platforms, and to broaden labour hire "same-job, same-pay" orders to include conditions, in its submission to the Closing Loopholes review.
The biggest mover on Labor's same-job, same-pay laws is using the Closing Loopholes review to call for a major expansion to include parity of conditions for on-hire workers, while capturing associated entities and tightening the exemption for service providers.
A review of Comcare's legislative framework says there is no choice but to redraft it, and warns AI, WFH and climate change "megatrends" all carry a risk of increasing psychological injury claims, while unions say workers compensation changes in NSW will cut support to those who are close to "catatonic" with such injuries.
Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth has engaged a former long-serving FWC member to review the Albanese Government's Closing Loopholes reforms.
Former CFMEU construction and general division Queensland branch leaders Michael Ravbar and Jade Ingham directed membership payments to the state-registered union rather than the federally-registered entity, leaving members without voting power, in a move that might have been intended to "create an impregnable fiefdom into which the national organisation could not reach", administrator Mark Irving KC said today.
The Wood inquiry into the CFMEU's activities in Queensland will put construction division administrator Mark Irving KC on the stand in a hearing this week.
Queensland's Crisafulli Government is removing the former Labor administration's best practice pay and conditions procurement guidelines for new State-funded construction projects, following the release of a State productivity commission report, while the Wood inquiry has appointed new counsel assisting, ahead of its first substantive hearings.
The Wood inquiry into the CFMEU construction and general division in Queensland has set down two tranches of hearings, as it rebuilds its counsel assisting team after a string of resignations.
