The Victorian Government is considering whether workers should be able to cash-out long service leave, access it sooner and in smaller increments, under a major review of the scheme that also canvasses options for boosting compliance and enforcement powers.
Tug operator Svitzer has moved to a single national agreement, after the FWC rejected objections from one of three unions that the company had unfairly selected the employees to be covered.
The trial of the ACCC's secondary boycott case against the CFMEU construction and general division's Victorian branch has been delayed until September, to avoid clashing with the controversial blackmail charges against union leaders John Setka and Shaun Reardon.
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.
