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Big Build royal commission begins in secret

Victoria's Kourakis royal commission into the construction sector has appointed an acting assistant commissioner and already held closed hearings in order to gather confidential information, it revealed at its first official hearing today.


Criminal, construction silks to aid Kourakis royal commission

Two silks with backgrounds in building and construction, criminal, administrative and public law are leading the legal team for Chris Kourakis' Royal Commission into crime and misconduct in the Victorian construction industry, ahead of its first hearing.



Extend reach of FDV leave, employee-like laws: Booth review

Extend family and domestic violence provisions to include perpetrators beyond immediate family, weigh whether to expand the employee-like worker framework to include journalists and performers, and form a tripartite committee of unions and employers to report annually on emerging IR issues, the Closing Loopholes review's final report recommends.


Call for reforms to curb "contractual distancing"

The Federal Government should replace casual loading with an "unpredictability" bonus for those in genuinely insecure work, expand coverage of the National Employment Standards to capture many currently classified as casuals, and change the definition of "employee-like", according to the Centre for Future Work's DavidĀ Peetz.


UFU secretary's role in contentious deal "extraordinary": IBAC

Victoria's new Premier Ben Carroll has pledged to accept the recommendations of an IBAC report that finds the former Andrews Labor Government allowed UFU secretary Peter Marshall to exert "extraordinary influence" in negotiations for a controversial agreement.


"Baseball bats" post breached parliamentary standards

Victoria's shadow attorney-general breached workplace conduct rules when he posted "Tick tock Jacinta Allan. Victoria is coming for Labor with baseball bats" on his social media channels, the state's parliamentary standards watchdog has found.


Tighten definition of "intentional" wage theft: AiG

The Albanese Government should repeal the wage theft offence and focus on simplifying the workplace relations system, the Australian Industry Group has told a Senate inquiry, while ACCI says that the absence of prosecutions shows that the "crime wave" used to justify the legislation "was false and misleading".



Fuel cost orders "not working swimmingly": Ai Group

The Australian Industry Group says the fuel cost recovery regime prompted by the Middle East conflict is "not working swimmingly", while withdrawing its only witness statement after the FWC refused to grant sweeping confidentiality orders.


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