The RBA will put its bargaining offer directly to employees this month, governor Philip Lowe told an inquiry this morning, after failing to reach agreement with FSU.
ACCI has secured more time for interveners to make their views known on single interest multi-employer bargaining provisions that the IEU's WA branch is testing in a bid to compel negotiations on behalf of general and education support workers in Catholic schools.
The NSW IRC has upheld the sacking of a paramedic who livestreamed on Tik Tok her attendance of an unlawful COVID-19 anti-lockdown protest and criticised the "heavy-handed" police response, during a period when she had been ordered to self-isolate after exposure to a positive case.
Workers employed by major hydrocarbons producer Woodside have overwhelmingly endorsed protected action at three key gas platforms off WA's north-west coast.
The Albanese Government has today introduced legislation to establish the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service as an independent statutory HR agency, while overhauling 39-year-old legislation covering the employment of parliamentary staff.
A federal parliamentary inquiry has recommended changing the House of Representatives' rules to prohibit MPs using s-xist, racist, homophobic and "otherwise exclusionary or discriminatory" terms against each other, in response to former s-x discrimination commissioner Kate Jenkins' Set the Standard report.
Scott Morrison's former policy director has been given extra time to pursue an adverse action case alleging discrimination against one of Australia's best-connected lobbying firms, which claims he resigned after it denied him a stake in the business.
The UFU's Victorian branch will press ahead with an application under the Secure Jobs intractable bargaining provisions, despite receiving a long-awaited pay offer covering thousands of firefighters.
The Australian Industry Group has weighed into the early childhood education and care sector supported bargaining test case to tell the FWC it is not its job to "rubber stamp" applications even if all parties desire it and to warn of significant implications for those who might be "selectively excluded" but risk being roped in later.
A FWC full bench has trimmed a union-sought extension to three zombie deals covering more than 500 IT workers after factoring in the Secure Jobs legislation's inherent "policy preference" for agreements negotiated under the Fair Work Act.
