The Wood inquiry interim report's recommendation to establish a regulator flies in the face of the union administrator's comments this week, while its draft building industry code extends beyond the 2013 code that provides its foundation.
The Crisafulli Government's proposed IR Bill "represents the most significant attack on worker rights and entitlements since the Newman era", Maurice Blackburn said in its submission to an inquiry into the legislation, as an inquiry into the legislation kicks off today.
A discrimination case involving the Queensland Office of IR underlines the challenges employers face when managing employees diagnosed with severe psychiatric disorders, amid questions over whether they can safely return to work.
Complaints to the Queensland Human Rights Commission are up by 60%, with an average of 47 arriving each week, partly driven by assistance from artificial intelligence, while employment-related complaints are up by 42%.
The Queensland IRC has upheld a government agency's refusal of a senior manager's flexible work request, finding it "particularly unjustifiable" given she supervised 32 workers and sought to be absent during core working hours.
Queensland's IRC has directed a government agency to freshly review an intelligence analyst's employment status after it gave insufficient reasons for rejecting his request for permanent appointment to a higher-level position he acted in.
In the wake of the review of the Queensland IR Act, the Crisafulli Government has introduced legislation that enables the IR minister to terminate industrial action if it serves the public interest, prohibits workers from taking industrial action during conciliation or arbitration, and creates a new "fit and proper person" test for union officials.
Lawyers to oppose HR manager's reinstatement; "Apprehension of bias well-founded": Judge; Sham contracting case shelved; and Train drivers not "systematically overworked": Full court.
Deregulate the establishment and administration of registered unions and "let the red unions rip through the industrial relations system" to restore Australia's productivity and wealth, Red Unions Support Hub managing director Jack McGuire told the recent HR Nicholls Society national conference.
A tribunal has upheld the suspension without pay of a nurse accused of s-xually assaulting a co-worker in their shared employer-provided accommodation, despite his claims it would be unfair when the allegations are "utterly untested".
