The FWC has found it "disproportionate" to summarily sack a HR general manager accused of creating an "unsafe" environment for her team and calling for their heads when they gave negative feedback, while also rejecting the employer's inference that she opportunistically used her distress over the outbreak of the Israel-Palestine war to explain her conduct.
In its first sitting week, Queensland's Crisafulli Government has "rammed through" legislation to reduce health and safety permit holders' entry rights, to address what it says is the CFMEU's "weaponisation of workplace health and safety", and introduced legislation to re-establish the State productivity commission.
A further same-job, same-pay test case is looming, after the nation's largest meat processor told the FWC that the AMIEU must make 10 separate applications for its 10 abattoirs across the country, rather than the single, omnibus bid it has submitted.
The FWC has issued a single interest employer authorisation for two regional Victorian councils, in the first full bench ruling to weigh whether it is barred from approving multi-employer negotiations when a union and an employer party have allegedly agreed in writing to bargain for a proposed single-enterprise agreement.
Legislation that sets an objective for superannuation passed Parliament last night, but the Bill to cap concessional tax treatment for earnings from superannuation accounts with balances exceeding $3 million remains stalled.
In a major test of supported bargaining provisions, McDonald's has told the FWC it is inappropriate for SA franchisees to bargain together with the SDA, while the ACTU is seeking to intervene given the case's significant implications for unions.
A nurse and one-time member of the ANMF Victorian branch council is seeking to register a rival union that claims it "will be the voice for nurses across Victoria".
Courts will be able to issue protection orders banning those who subject "frontline" federal public servants to violence and aggression from further access to their workplaces for up to two years, under newly-introduced Albanese Government legislation.
A Senate inquiry into AI has recommended updating workplace OHS frameworks to impose a positive duty on employers to minimise the risk of AI and mandating consultation, while a second parliamentary probe is considering whether the government should introduce protections from excessive workplace surveillance.
A leading IR barrister says few employers are equipped to deal with the "huge sleeper issue" posed by the rise of working from home, as it becomes increasingly difficult to order employees to return, but he does not believe more legislation is the answer.
