After reading the Heydon Royal Commission's two secret but "slim" confidential volumes, Independent Senator Jacquie Lambie says taxpayers have been "ripped off".
Jenkins appointed as sex discrimination commissioner; DHS employees reject agreement; Government expands seasonal worker program; No living wage guarantee in electronics supply chains says report; and Report floats flexibility plan for academic workforc.
The franchisees of some 7-Eleven stores are still operating "cash-back" schemes in which employees hand back part of their pay, a Senate inquiry has heard.
An FWC full bench has quashed a decision that used the wrong maritime award as the BOOT benchmark for a new agreement covering coastal cargo vessels, but dismissed a challenge to a senior manager's appointment as a bargaining representative.
Speakers at an IR academics conference have revealed that more than a third of foreign students at a prestigious university business school who work off-campus part-time are being paid less than $12 an hour, highlighted the critical importance for the Australian Public Service bargaining round of an agreement ballot closing today and pointed to a "hidden culture" of overtime in APS middle management.
Unions are considering a push into new areas, offering online campaigning and basic services that would cost workers $1 to $2 a week, under a radical plan to rebuild membership density.
A Melbourne hotelier took adverse action against an events manager when she took sick leave to manage her anxiety and sought legal advice, the Federal Circuit Court has found.
A court has found a former employee guilty of contempt and ordered her to pay indemnity costs after she breached undertakings not to allege the employer's managing director was a bully in an unhealthy and dangerous workplace.
A tribunal has warned employers that they must not only have anti-discrimination policies in place but must also ensure they are "communicated effectively", after finding an Aboriginal economic development company vicariously liable for race discrimination.
