The NSW PSA has won a rule change to enable it to cover speed camera operators after it resolved an ASU objection via undertakings allowing either of them to ask the ACTU to help settle any demarcation disputes before heading to private arbitration.
More women are being appointed to managerial roles but their high resignation rates are undermining gender equality gains, while occupational segregation remains a key driver of inequality, according to a new WGEA report.
Once the FWC resolves Commission-initiated gender undervaluation "low-hanging fruit", its president expects unions and employer groups to make their own applications to deal with the remaining "more difficult areas".
A court has temporarily barred the NTEU from pursuing a FWC dispute application challenging a UTS decision to suspend enrolments into more than 100 courses, a month after SafeWork NSW lifted a prohibition notice pausing planned layoffs at the university.
The TWU is threatening strikes in the cash-in-transit industry in three states - with 99% of Victorian Armaguard workers already voting in favour - arguing its hand has been forced by a lack of progress in pay talks, eight months after the union's novel bid to rope-in the industry's major customers to secure pay rises.
The Albanese Government has modified its plan to cap concessional treatment for earnings from superannuation accounts and pushed back its start date by 12 months, in a response to criticisms, while the low-income super tax offset will be increased and apply up to a higher pay limit.
AI-driven customer service aids such as chatbots are a "standard feature" in the private sector and government organisations like the FWC should be no different, according to its president, who is planning to roll out artificial intelligence to serve users more efficiently and at lower cost.
The FWC has refused to extend time for a worker who "misrepresented" the reason for a one-day delay in filing her unfair dismissal application, when she blamed the Commission for sending an email to the wrong address.
Mining giant Glencore sprang a second lockout on workers at its Ulan No.3 underground thermal coal mine this morning, which the MEU says is a "clear sign" that after 18 months of negotiations, bargaining has become intractable, ahead of an IBD hearing next week.
