The Albanese Government's legislation to link its funding for the 15% work value pay rise for early childhood educators to limits on childcare operator fee increases, to ensure the funding is reflected in workers' wages, has passed parliament.
A FWC full bench has upheld a deputy president's decision to throw out the unfair dismissal claims of two UWU organisers who had adverse action cases on foot at the time they filed, flouting Fair Work Act provisions preventing multiple applications of a certain type.
A Slater and Gordon HR chief sacked for allegedly misleading its board about underpaid leave entitlements of more than $300,000 is accusing it in a Federal Court adverse action case of retaliating in response to "whistleblower" disclosures.
Qantas unlicensed aircraft mechanical engineers are preparing to ramp up their campaign of protected action in the lead-up to the peak Christmas travel period, with new ballots set to close on December 6.
The SDA has won same-job, same-pay orders that will lift pay by $8 to $12 an hour for close to 200 labour hire workers placed at a Queensland Kmart warehouse, while it has also, in league with the UWU, secured similar orders that will raise wages for on-hire workers at Metcash by up to $12,600 a year.
More than 1000 nurses and midwives from 17 NSW-based Ramsay Health Care private hospitals are stopping work today and rallying outside the healthcare giant's annual general meeting in Sydney to demand a 20% pay rise over three years.
A presidential member placed too much emphasis on two workers' failure to chase up their unfair dismissal applications, a FWC full bench has ruled, finding the representative's miscalculation of the due date responsible for the whole delay.
Adero Law says it is about to pursue the UWU over multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment, adverse action and political discrimination involving at least 20 current and former employees, while the union has rejected these claims and others in a separate case targeting WA branch secretary Carolyn Smith.
Deputy PM Richard Marles' chief of staff today called for changes to practices used by the new Parliamentary Workplace Support Service, as she launched an adverse action claim against him and the PM's chief of staff over alleged bullying and victimisation within her workplace.
The FWC's workplace s-xual harassment and s-x-based harassment claims regime is significantly faster than that of the AHRC, but the latter's "trauma-informed" processes and expertise provide better support for workers' emotional wellbeing, according to a new paper.
