The Albanese Government's legislation to empower the FWC to set minimum standards for "employee-like" gig economy workers will apply only to work performed through digital labour platforms, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke will reveal in a speech to the National Press Club tomorrow.
IR academic and researcher Ron Callus, best known for leading a pioneering IR research centre and the first of the two landmark Australian Workplace IR Surveys, is being remembered for his outstanding scholarship, along with his humanity and compassion, after his death in Sydney aged 70.
"Australia's unluckiest job applicant" has been ordered to pay a labour hire company indemnity costs of $44,000 for a "time-wasting" failed discrimination case, in which he sought $115,000 in compensation and refused an early $5000 settlement offer.
The Australian Public Service Commission has tabled a revised APS pay offer that lifts total increases from 10.5% over three years to 11.2% and makes a 2.29% "re-alignment payment" for employees in some agencies as part of a shift to service-wide common dates for wage rises.
A major employer's disciplinary process leading to a worker's dismissal featured "significant deficiencies" despite the oversight of an IR specialist, the FWC has found.
The Remuneration Tribunal has awarded a 4% pay rise for federal parliamentarians and the most senior public servants after noting that increases awarded over the past decade had been "conservative", including zero in 2020 and 2021 and 2.75% last year.
The Offshore Alliance and the ETU have notified Chevron that it will hit its Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG facilities with rolling stoppages and work bans from next Thursday, with the unions deriding its decision to put an unsupported deal to a vote tomorrow.
The Federal Court has found that an aged care home favoured its Filipino workers over a Chinese nurse, and took adverse action against her when it summarily dismissing her because she made complaints about other employees.
Chevron's Wheatstone platform LNG workers this afternoon have followed their Gorgon and Wheatstone downstream colleagues in recording an overwhelming vote in favour of industrial action that unions say could "jam up" exports, while a peace deal at Woodside will bump annual pay beyond $360,000 for some workers.
