The UK Government is considering introducing reforms to stop employers using labour-hire arrangements to short-change women, as part of a suite of changes aimed at ending workplace pay discrimination.
The FWC has granted stevedore Qube an AWU-supported IBD to resolve, with no post-declaration negotiating period, an impasse over the pay rates, wage increases, sign-on bonus and income protection the union wants to secure in a new deal.
A property manager who returned home to down scotch and cokes with her sister following a panic attack during her working time has won $9,000 compensation, after the FWC found her real estate agent employer failed to establish that the hours-long drinking session coincided with her remotely accessing its IT system and deleting and forwarding her emails and other documents.
The ACT's education department must find an additional $8000 after a court increased penalties for breaching an agreement's job security terms in the case of a former public school teacher claiming she was unlawfully dismissed in 2016.
The ETU is seeking 4.5% annual pay rises for BHP's high voltage and power workers in the Pilbara, having put a majority support application on hold after the miner agreed to bargain.
Thousands of businesses outside the building sector might be liable for millions of dollars in long service entitlements after a court finding that certain EnergyAustralia and Detector Inspector workers are captured by Victoria's portable LSL scheme, warns scheme authority LeavePlus.
The first public policy changes to boost workers' power in more than 30 years - under the Albanese Government - have coincided with an increase in nominal and real wages and a rise in workers' share of the fruits of the economy, according to the Centre for Future Work's David Peetz.
In a decision laying bare one business's struggle to balance productivity and work-from-home arrangements, the FWC has concluded that it did not force a new father to resign when it told him to return to the office and increase his output.
The Australian Industry Group is urging the Coalition to conduct a "fundamental review" of the Fair Work Act in its first term if it wins the federal election, to identify changes to take to the 2028 election, while the ACTU has released legal advice obtained on the party's public sector WFH policy prior to its sudden backflip.
A lap dancer who worked in a club in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley cannot proceed with her general protections claim after the FWC found she is an independent contractor.
