The Human Rights Commission and the Law Council have voiced major concerns to a Senate inquiry into a Bill designed to protect workers who bring sexual harassment claims from costs orders in most circumstances, but the ACTU says criticisms are "unfounded".
"Working households" experienced cost increases of about 9% over the past year, according to Treasury analysis released today as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed that Labor will reconfigure the Coalition's stage three tax changes to favour low- to middle-income earners.
A veteran employment lawyer is asking the FWC to repel a journalist's freedom of information bid for documents relating to a settled unfair dismissal case, warning that it could "undermine the correct administration of the Fair Work Act" and inflict "irreversible harm" on his client.
A worker who called a FWC deputy president a "dip-sh-t", "bearuacratic w-nker" and a "grinch" has failed to secure his recusal for allegedly failing to hold his employer accountable for breaching the Privacy Act.
A major mining company has voiced "serious concerns" at being targeted by a multi-employer bargaining test case involving several competitors, despite the Albanese Government's assurances that mine employers would not be significantly affected by the legislation.
The FWC has ordered compensation but declined to reinstate 24 DP World wharfies sacked in 2021 for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, finding that although the dismissal process was bungled, the workers "significantly contributed" to the situation.
The FWC has published a digital database of the 2008-09 award modernisation process, comprising thousands of searchable documents making up what then Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard described as a "historic reform" of Australia's awards system.
In a case highlighting the many tripwires involved in remote working arrangements, the FWC has upheld the sacking of a Bureau of Meteorology scientist who fell off the radar after an overseas holiday.
DEWR is expecting 85,000 "regular casual" workers to seek conversion to permanency in each of the first five years after the passage of the Closing Loopholes Part Two Bill's casual employment provisions, and half that number beyond that point.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has ordered a paid IR agent to attend a conference to resolve a worker's complaint that he ended up out of pocket after settling an adverse action case his representative sought to discontinue without his express approval.
