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.
A FWC full bench has this afternoon issued the first supported bargaining authorisation under the Secure Jobs provisions, opening the way for the UWU, AEU and IEU to negotiate a deal on behalf of 12,000 employees with 64 early childhood education and care employers.
Queensland Catholic school teachers and support staff have rejected an employer deal by a narrow margin after the IEU labelled it "punitive" and warned of major cuts, while staff in Religious Institute and Edmund Rice schools have convincingly voted up their unilateral offer.
Striking Ingham's workers in two states are set to earn an average $100 more a week under an in-principle agreement struck on the back of 24-hour stoppages and a rancorous picket, after the FWC found that it could not make a s418 order to stop the blockade.
