CFMEU construction division administrator Mark Irving KC is again shaking up his leadership picks with the appointment of Michael Crosby, an organising expert and author of a book about rebuilding the union movement, to run the NSW branch.
Labor will be able to pass IR legislation in the upper house relying solely on the Greens, after the Australian Electoral Commission today confirmed the final Senate results.
With employers said to be using artificial intelligence for everything from recruitment and rostering to forecasting industrial action, an employment lawyer is urging IR practitioners to consider the legal, ethical and practical issues.
An employer's request for a medical certificate demonstrating a senior manager's fitness for work after an extended absence would have been unlawful and unreasonable if his contract had not required him to participate in medical examinations.
The "labour productivity bubble" that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic can provide lessons for the future, and hybrid working can be more beneficial to productivity than wholly working from home or the workplace, according to a new Productivity Commission report.
The FWC's annual wage review expert panel will hand down its 2024-25 ruling on Tuesday morning, after the newly-returned Albanese Government urged a real increase in the minimum wage and award rates, the ACTU sought a 4.5% rise and ACCI and AIG no more than 2.5% and 2.6% respectively.
A spurned TWU delegate found to have aired false bullying allegations against a co-delegate during a meeting at which he referred to him as "kid" and told him to put his "b-lls on the line" by holding a vote has lost his unfair dismissal case, despite his employer's procedural failings.
The Federal Government's just transition body is consulting on developing a jobs plan for workers who will be displaced when Australia's largest power station closes in 2027, but an academic says two years is "nowhere near enough time" to establish a proper transition program.
Liberal MP Tim Wilson has been installed as the new shadow workplace relations minister, on the same day the AEC begins a partial recount of his narrow election victory.
In a significant decision on the ambit of intractable bargaining determinations, a FWC full bench has found it has the power to require employers to backpay former workers.
