The FWC has offered a worker a week to consider his possible reinstatement, finding that his employer unfairly dismissed him for a low-speed wheelie-bin collision.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has defended an estimated $9 billion in higher pay over the next decade as a result of the "Closing the Loopholes" legislation, arguing it amounts to a fractional increase in the national wages bill that will make a "life-changing" difference to workers who benefit.
A leading labour law academic says the drafting of the Albanese Government's latest swathe of IR changes is "complex" but the reformed approach to defining an employee is "really significant" and new labour hire provisions are likely to prevent employers from evading agreements via outsourcing.
RAFFWU has won overwhelming support from members at Woolworths for industrial action, as it awaits results of a protected action ballot at Coles, which it claims is excluding it from its "condition cutting soiree" meetings with rival unions and refusing to budge on its "poverty wages".
A FWC member has issued the "strongest recommendation" for AMWU members at an Ampol refinery to cease industrial action and vote up a new deal, after expressing her view that she lacked the power to convene a second post-PABO compulsory conciliation conference.
Qantas Group chief executive Alan Joyce has brought forward his retirement to help the company "accelerate its renewal" after a 15-year reign that featured a hard line on IR, including the dramatic 2011 lockout and grounding, the outsourcing of ground handling at the height of the pandemic and the establishment of cost-cutting internal labour hire arrangements when he led Jetstar.
A worker sacked for sleeping on the job will have another shot at getting his job back after a full bench found a senior member failed to put him on notice that he considered reinstatement inappropriate and reached an "unsound" conclusion that the employer had a valid reason.
Many workers are yet to gain the full benefit of the Albanese's initial rounds of IR changes because of loopholes that allow employers to undermine pay and conditions, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke told Parliament as he introduced his third tranche of workplace law reform this afternoon.
The Albanese Government's "Closing Loopholes" legislation will empower the FWC to set minimum standards for truck drivers while requiring that its orders do not adversely affect the viability and competitiveness of owner-drivers.
Federal Treasury is consulting on draft legislation that will enshrine an objective for super of preserving savings "to deliver income for a dignified retirement, alongside government support, in an equitable and sustainable way", partly to prevent a repeat of the Coalition's coronavirus early release policy.
