The Albanese Government's first major tranche of IR legislation beefs-up workers' rights to secure flexible working arrangements and empowers the FWC to arbitrate if conciliation of a refused request fails.
The Albanese Government has confirmed its Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill to be into introduced into Parliament next Thursday will include measures to close the gender pay gap, but IR academic Shae McCrystal says any legislation must also provide a right to strike or compulsory arbitration for workers engaging in multi-employer bargaining.
A former coal miner who is the new Federal Labor member for Hunter has used his first speech to call out "dodgy labour-hire arrangements", while praising the government's "same job, same pay" agenda.
The Albanese Government has adopted the FWC's proposed amendment to its legislation to introduce 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave, while it is separately pushing ahead with ratifying an ILO convention on the minimum working age.
The Albanese Government's multi-employer bargaining regime will focus on low-paid workers and will not permit sector-wide or industry-wide strikes, according to documents tabled in the Senate.
A new Labor MP has described her personal experience of the "ache of insecure work" in the tertiary education sector to reinforce why it has become one of the primary targets in the Albanese Government's legislative agenda.
ALP senator Linda White hopes that Foreign Minister Penny Wong has forgiven her for the "relentless" equal pay campaign she helped successfully wage a decade ago when at the ASU and the party's current Senate leader had responsibility for finances in the Gillard Government.
Former Coalition staffer Rachelle Miller has followed a $650,000 settlement with the Commonwealth with a plea for MPs to support the establishment of an independent body to enforce codes of conduct in Federal parliamentary workplaces.
Employers says an Albanese Government decision to boost skilled migrant numbers by more than 20% this financial year is a "win" for advocacy at the jobs summit, while Labor says there is "consensus" it needs to raise the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold.
The Albanese Labor Government should establish an "independent body" to set enforceable standards for traditional transport operations, along with on-demand delivery and rideshare platform work, according to a broad industry-union coalition.
