FWC accepts PC report as submission rather than evidence; Heerey report due at end of month; Patrick talks continuing; Productivity portfolio dropped in Turnbull's reshuffle; and MUA tells members not to respond to FWO overtures.
Roy Morgan Research Ltd took adverse action against a director who sought to return to work after maternity leave when it refused her request for flexible working hours and instead brought forward her redundancy, the Federal Circuit Court has found.
RMIT academic Professor Anthony Forsyth has told a forum on the Heydon Royal Commission that he has shifted his position on whether a specialist regulator of unions and employer organisations is justified, and now believes unions should accept the Coalition's proposed Registered Organisations Commission.
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.
