ACTU pushes "extreme heat" regulations; Inquiry issues discussion paper to spur submissions; NES inquiry submissions close late this month; and Clarification from race discrimination commissioner.
An emergency care flight service has withdrawn objections to an ANMF protected action ballot of nurses and midwives, and the FWC has found no reason to block it, after the union inserted a caveat to protect patient safety.
The UTS Centre for Indigenous People and Work has joined forces with the AEU to develop a best practice bargaining framework, with the aim of incorporating anti-racist and cultural recognition clauses in agreements.
The Queensland Teachers' Union's federal entity has entered an enforceable undertaking with the FWC after failing to conduct elections for its branch council and executive, despite numerous prompts from the regulator.
The CEPU's South Australian branch has failed to convince Commissioner Chris Platt in his final ruling before retirement that an employer breached its good faith bargaining obligations by putting a single-enterprise agreement to a vote after the union sought a supported bargaining authorisation.
The FWC has ruled that a former CFMEU organiser is a fit and proper person to work for another union despite her "spur of the moment" decision to confront an investigative journalist that resulted in her dismissal.
Microsoft says an Australian-first framework agreement with the ACTU sets a new standard for "responsible AI diffusion" across workplaces, protecting those working on AI and affected by it, while prioritising training for unions and employees.
The FWC is proposing to quickly insert a far broader delegates' rights term in modern awards, following a full Federal Court decision to quash the Commission's previous "impermissibly confined" term.
Following sustained pressure from disgruntled members, the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association and HACSU have withdrawn their merger plan.
