The ACTU has taken aim at BHP, Qantas, Qube and CIMIC in a paper warning that employers will continue to exploit outsourcing "loopholes" to suppress wages unless Same Job, Same Pay measures extending to internal labour hire subsidiaries are passed into law.
A new review has urged the Albanese Government to increase the number of entities required to lodge modern slavery statements, with penalties introduced for failing to meet reporting standards.
Many employers are still scrambling to work out what the next raft of Secure Jobs changes will mean for them when they take effect next Tuesday and fear being "caught by surprise", according to the Ai Group, while the FWC has added a series of videos to its information packages on the amendments.
The former contracts manager of an ASX-listed mining company has been ordered to pay half his former employer's costs in defending an appeal against a judge's decision to strike out most of a general protections claim filed as the company pursues him for allegedly earning "secret profits".
Interested parties have until June 16 to respond to a FWC bench's proposal to amend model award terms to highlight the two "alternative and parallel avenues" now available to resolve disputes over flexible work and unpaid parental leave requests.
Gig workers should not be able to challenge their removal from platforms on the ground of unfairness and a separate jurisdiction charged with setting minimum standards ought to deal only with pay, not other conditions such as portable leave and rest break entitlements, according to a Business Council response to the Albanese Government's plan to empower the FWC to deal with "employee-like" forms of work.
A road crew member's pursuit of payment for travel time between his accommodation and remote sites has produced a clear list of winners and losers, after the FWC confirmed the employer's view that whoever is behind the wheel on the way 'home' is working while their co-worker passengers are not.
A Sydney University lecturer sacked for superimposing a swastika on a posted image of an Israeli flag has nominally won his job back, pending the result of the institution's appeal against a finding that his 2019 dismissal breached its agreement's intellectual freedom clause.
A tribunal member has thrown out a lawyer's discrimination case, accusing him of becoming a "serial pest" after he filed multiple discrimination claims against employers for failing to hire him, including a recent matter in which he claimed "very attractive and beautiful" interviewers humiliated him.
