Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth has made revised regulations to enable state and territory laws dealing with workplace s-xual harassment-related non-disclosure agreements to operate alongside the Fair Work Act, ahead of its response to the AHRC's Speaking from Experience report and a legislative review.
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The Queensland IRC has overturned a finding against an employee accused of punching a colleague multiple times, excoriating Queensland Health for "perplexing" and "inexplicable" delays in its investigation and for reaching a decision that "confounds logic".
A jury has found a subsidiary of ASX-listed Mastermyne Group guilty of industrial manslaughter over the death of a mineworker at a Bowen Basin coal mine, in the first successful prosecution since the Queensland Government extended the laws to resources workplaces in 2020.
Queensland's Crisafulli Government has launched a review of the State's IR and workers' compensation legislation, focusing on "restoring productivity to Queensland worksites", the near-doubling of psychological claims in the last five years and public sector bargaining.
Queensland's Crisafulli Government has enthusiastically embraced the State Productivity Commission's call to "rationalise" procurement policies as part of an overall construction industry "reset", indicating backing for 51 of 64 recommendations contained in the final report of the QPC's inquiry into the sector.
Men are using reproductive leave almost as much as women, a Queensland Council of Unions survey of State public sector workers has revealed, one year after the introduction of the entitlement.
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.
