Property giant Brookfield has settled a case with a senior executive retrenched ahead of her return from parental leave, after the company admitted it "fell short" but claimed it has improved its practices.
Victoria's new shadow IR minister, Richard Welch, has promised to bring "forward-looking leadership" to his portfolios, having once invented an early form of motion-tracking AI and built a factory in India from which he developed and exported products for more than a decade.
The workplace watchdog's power to hold franchisors to account for franchisees' underpayments has been bolstered, after a full Federal Court today threw out a challenge by the Bakers Delight chain.
The ACTU has slammed the Albanese Government's decision to dump its commitment to guaranteeing a weekly minimum of 30 paid hours for short-term workers on the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme.
The FWC has found a flexible working request invalid, because of its "tenuous" connection to the worker's caring responsibilities and the strain his absence would have imposed on other workers.
The general manager of a cosmetics services chain who held dual roles that in combination paid above the high-income threshold can pursue an unfair dismissal claim because it only relates to one of her positions, the FWC has held.
The ACTU is calling for standalone AI legislation and a dedicated regulator in its scathing response to the Productivity Commission's inquiry report, which it says offers "nothing for working people".
Victoria's Allan Labor Government has introduced a Bill to boost the ability of the State's Labour Hire Authority to prevent people with links to criminal organisations from operating labour hire businesses and to make it a criminal offence to retaliate against those who speak out.
HR and diversity practitioners say employers are using elite university attendance to filter out job applicants, but few utilise social class data to boost diversity and inclusion, according to Diversity Council Australia research that sets out pathways to recognise and remove the "class ceiling".
