Employers lash McManus over junior rates; Assent for costs protection, superannuation bills; NSW seeks to amend new portable leave laws; and Sexual harassment benchbook published.
McCrystal to expound on de-collectivisation in Weeks memorial talk; Halloween theme for 2024 Ron McCallum debate; Guidance on mutual gains bargaining from former tribunal member; and Isaac lecture to explore digital futures at work.
Leading IR academics Mark Bray and Alison Preston have been appointed to conduct an independent review of 2022's Secure Jobs legislation that will look at whether its changes have been "appropriate and effective", or have generated any unintended consequences.
A judge has compiled a checklist for workers pursuing employers over unreasonable hours, highlighting the difficulties a product marketing manager faces in building her adverse action case without detailed evidence of workloads, deadlines and demands to complete tasks.
The use of rolling fixed-term contracts in the tertiary education sector is set to come under close scrutiny by a FWC full bench, while the tribunal has also moved ahead with its review of two arts sector awards in the wake of its inconclusive "targeted" examination of modern awards.
The FWC has cleared the way for a Philippines-based paralegal to pursue her unfair dismissal claim, finding her an employee of a Queensland law firm that paid her $12 an hour below award.
The TWU has filed the last of its promised applications aimed at overhauling standards in the road transport industry, asking the FWC to make a contractual chain order imposing 30-day payment deadlines and compulsory rate reviews, while prohibiting unfair "set-off" terms.
The Victorian Government should opt for best practice guidelines over law reform, the Australian Industry Group has told a parliamentary workplace surveillance inquiry, while the Centre for Future Work says there is an urgent need for dedicated workplace surveillance laws to address the "serious and unacceptable risks" associated with increased monitoring.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association and NSW Health have today agreed to follow State IRC President Ingmar Taylor's recommendation to immediately engage in four weeks of "intensive discussions", on the basis that the Minns Government pays a 3% upfront increase and the union halts its campaign of industrial action.
