Employment Minister Michaelia Cash has pledged today to introduce legislation when Parliament resumes in a fortnight to stop the contractor driver minimum payments road safety remuneration order taking effect before January next year.
A self-described IR advisory sector "disrupter" that unfairly dismissed an injured worker has won an order to prohibit publication of the compensation decision, after arguing it would provide competitors with "significant insight" into its business.
The Federal Court has delayed the contractor driver minimum payments road safety remuneration order that was to take effect today, granting NatRoad a stay order late on Friday afternoon that is now being challenged by the TWU.
The FWC has ordered Immigration and Border Force employees at international airports to return to work today after making an interim decision to suspend protected action.
The two-month window for employers to report gender-related employment data begins today, with a new requirement this year to provide rates of promotion and resignation, broken down by gender.
The RSRT has today rejected calls to delay the April 4 implementation of its contractor driver minimum rates order and has attacked those who have propagated "myths" to "bolster their case" for change.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says today's COAG meeting has agreed that he will take a detailed proposal to its next gathering on the recommendations of his state's family violence royal commission, which pushed for amendments to the National Employment Standards to provide paid and unpaid domestic violence leave.
The FWC has ordered the reinstatement of a Centrelink officer who described customers as "spastics" and "whingeing junkies" on social media and posted comments that allegedly criticised the government and brought his employer's reputation into disrepute.
The union that represents cleaners, disability care workers and security guards is asking the FWC to "convene a special process" in the second half of the year to determine whether it can set a "medium-term target" for the minimum wage, to arrest what it says is a long-term downward trajectory.
