Gender equality is improving but women's workplace safety has declined over the past decade, while uneven domestic workloads and men's low uptake of parental leave are also impeding progress, according to a new national index measuring progress across seven key dimensions.
Employers will be required from July next year to make super contributions within seven calendar days of paying their workers' wages and salaries, after enabling legislation passed Parliament today.
A tribunal has upheld an employer's decision to suspend without pay a nurse charged with the digital r-pe of a paediatric patient's mother, until criminal proceedings have been decided.
A FWC full bench has rejected Uber's bid to knock out the first substantive test of the tribunal's new gig economy unfair contracts powers, finding a driver has an arguable case that his arrangement with the rideshare giant falls short.
The FWC has refused McDonald's' bid to put on hold the SDA's application for supported bargaining authorisations for more than 100,000 workers across five states and the NT until the Federal Court completes a review next year.
A tribunal has ordered Queensland Health to re-run its selection process for a midwifery promotion position and remove the successful candidate from her new post, after it failed to give another front-runner a chance to respond to a referee's negative comment.
The Offshore Alliance and ETU are up in arms after Bechtel warned them that unless they drop their "intractable" 30% wage demands for the Pluto Train 2 Project by Monday, it will bar them from bargaining meetings and deal only with the AMWU and CFMEU.
Working women's centre returns to NSW; FWC annual report tabled; Workplace protection orders legislation passes Parliament; FWC's Enright stepping away; NSW department victimised delegate, IRC finds; and $213 million recovered from big corporates: FWO.
