FWC President Adam Hatcher has told this year's AI-themed Ron McCallum Debate that algorithmic wage discrimination is having "major effects" on the world of work and employment rights, which he expects to "hit Australia fairly soon".
In the wake of his party's landslide victory on the weekend, new Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has appointed Jarrod Bleijie as his IR minister, after reassuring public sector workers on Monday that there will be "no employment cuts" and he won't be "repeating" the Newman Government's morale- and productivity-sapping actions.
The Federal Government should consider "a right of access" to workplaces rather than a right of entry", to overcome the presumption that workers attend a physical location to perform their jobs that "ignore[s] the reality" of post-COVID-19 remote and digital work environments, a union leader suggests in a paper she will present at the Australian Labour Law Association conference next week in Geelong.
Thousands of labour hire mineworkers, airline cabin crew and meatworkers are in line from today for significant pay rises as a result of union same-job, same-pay claims, with the MEU calculating its applications alone will boost wages by almost $130 million a year.
Sacked CFMEU construction division officials have told the High Court their constitutional challenge to Federal Government legislation placing union branches under administration is a stark reminder that "you cannot do indirectly what you are forbidden to do directly".
A FWC full bench will next month hear an Uber driver's unfair contract case, in the first test of the new provisions, a senior tribunal member told the NSW IR Society's Newcastle branch last week.
The former acting principal of a Sydney Islamic school has won a court order fixing costs at $40,000 as she pursues its leadership for allegedly subjecting her to s-x, racial and pregnancy discrimination, including by telling her she should stay home and look after her children.
JobKeeper-like wage subsidies should be part of a government's "toolkit" for future pandemics, but "blanket" early access to superannuation should be taken off the table, according to the independent inquiry into Australia's response to COVID-19.
