The Disability Royal Commission, in its report today, has recommended a registration scheme potentially incorporating a definition of a "disability support worker" and portable training and leave entitlements, while also pushing for an award-variation bid for equal remuneration orders.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a mineworker for failing to disclose his use of prescription medicinal cannabis on his days off, despite the fact he passed all drug tests and left a 32-hour buffer before the start of his working weeks.
New DEWR data has undercut RBA warnings about the risks of a wage-price spiral, indicating that private sector bargained wage growth remains anchored below 4% a year.
In what is believed to be the first workplace breastfeeding discrimination ruling, a tribunal has found that a KFC franchisee indirectly discriminated against a worker when it told her to express milk in a tent, within a storeroom with no door.
The FWO is prosecuting the University of NSW over payslip and record-keeping practices it claims are so poor it cannot verify self-reported underpayments and so grave they warrant sanctions that multiply penalties ten-fold for serious contraventions, alleging HR and ER employees knew of and implemented the systems.
The process of obtaining an entry permit should be "no more than onerous" than that for a passport unless there are "good grounds" for suspecting the applicant might not be a fit and proper person, according to the Booth-Hamberger review of regulation of registered organisations.
The Albanese Government has today declared its in-principle support for an A-G Department review's recommendation to extend "enhanced privacy protections" to private sector workers, allowing employers to collect information "reasonably necessary to administer the employment relationship", but preventing them misusing it.
The FWC has today issued its first authorisation under the Secure Jobs single interest bargaining provisions, in a ruling that provides only a limited test of the new laws for sector-wide negotiations because of factors that include the employers' consent.
The CPSU will escalate industrial action at Services Australia, while lodging protected action ballots for other agencies, after the union's ballot of members found a narrow majority supported a new enterprise agreement offered by the agency.
The FWC will consider the late unfair dismissal claim of a worker who believes his employer sacked him for alleged sexual harassment, after receiving evidence that five law firms rejected his case on one day alone.
