The Australian Human Rights Commission has recommended extending employers' obligations to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace to protect workers from customers and clients, after its latest five-year survey indicated a significant reduction in sexual harassment on the job.
CFMEU WA branch secretary Kevin Reynolds walked away from the State IRC election inquiry on Friday after a two-day grilling that raised questions over aspects of his management of the union, but with no 'smoking gun' having emerged that could lead to a more serious reprimand.
In his first speech since becoming Shadow Workplace Relations Minister, Michael Keenan has today labelled himself a pragmatist on IR and said the Coalition accepted the Government had the right to implement the policy it took to the last election. He also said the Opposition was keen to play a constructive role in "shaping our future system".
Lennon, Christodoulou to lead Unions NSW; Walton now fulltime APESMA chief executive; Minna Knight joins AMMA; AIRC reduced to 39 members, after Blain and Redmond retire; and Hatzistergos adds IR to A-G portfolio.
The Federal Magistrates Court has refused an employer’s application for the costs of striking out a pleading by the Workplace Ombudsman that was “in large part, bad”.
The WA IRC set up its inquiry into the CFMEU's state election to clear up who is entitled to run and vote, but evidence heard yesterday has raised questions about how the union might operate after the poll is over.
A full bench of the Federal Court has overturned an early ruling in which the CFMEU (FFTS division) successfully relied on a rarely used unlawful termination provision to win reinstatement for an employee on the basis that he was sacked after he complained to it about his treatment at work.
It has been a long-time coming, but Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has today revealed that all current members of the AIRC will be offered roles with Fair Work Australia.
Australia’s response to climate change is an opportunity to create more than half a million new “green jobs” in six emerging industries over the next 20 years, but it will require the federal government to mandate deep, early carbon emissions reductions and help the industries develop domestic and international markets, according to a report jointly commissioned by the ACTU and the Australian Conservation Foundation.
