Victoria's Allan Government has introduced legislation to create a fair jobs code for local government and to extend Commonwealth flexible working arrangements, pay secrecy, and fixed term and casual employment provisions to public sector workers.
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.
A Victorian public schools deal sold by the AEU to Victorian members as a " win for teachers" has been voted down, with the union set to decide today on its "next steps" and the Government accusing the union of being out of touch with its membership.
The Victorian working from home legislation "aims to strike a balance" between making remote work available to more workers and the "operational realities" of businesses, partly by creating a comprehensive "reasonableness" test, Premier Jacinta Allan told State Parliament today.
Victoria's imminent restrictions on non-disclosure agreements might help curb workplace s-xual harassment secrecy, but an expert says their ultimate success hinges on lawyers abandoning an "entrenched culture" around settlements.
A court has upheld a finding that an energy company must pay portable long service leave charges for its maintenance employees at a Victorian power plant, because they are performing work in the "construction industry".
The AEU's Victorian branch says an Allan Government offer to lift public school teachers' pay by up to 32% over four years will put them ahead of their NSW counterparts and is "worthy" of members' endorsement.
A casino manager did not mean to suggest that Crown Melbourne would use its CCTV coverage to "get" a worker if she challenged its refusal of her flexible work application to care for her sick mother, when he pointedly talked about her being under constant surveillance, a tribunal has found.
