NSW health deal to go to ballot; Correction to Qube article; Disconnect obligations extending to small business; Seminar to canvass employer encroachment on free speech; and Treasury seeking feedback on retirement income principles.
A judge has slapped an $8000 penalty on a major Commonwealth department after expressing astonishment that it does not have a "human or technological" system in place to ensure it pays dismissed employees their correct entitlements.
Burger chain Grill'd is making its second attempt to win approval of a national agreement, while the SDA's application to terminate the nominally expired deal depriving workers of award entitlements remains unresolved.
The FWC has banned a paid agent from continuing to represent his client after finding him to blame for the worker's late dismissal challenge and that he sought to rely on a decision which "clearly does not exist" when arguing the application had been filed within time.
The newly-installed secretary of the ANMF's Victorian branch is facing the first contested election for the job in more than 30 years, as a rank-and-file team and a former council member who sought to register a rival union separately vie for multiple leadership posts.
Employees of Qube Offshore Services at a WA Shell floating LNG facility who haven't had a pay rise since 2021 have won 24% in pay rises over four years after the FWC made an intractable bargaining workplace determination.
Newly-introduced NSW legislation would require employers to ensure that their use of artificial intelligence, algorithms and automation does not risk worker health and safety, including by creating excessive workloads and performance metrics or unreasonably monitoring workers.
The Minns Government has offered a 3% interim pay increase and a night duty penalty rate increase to public sector nurses, ahead of arbitration in the NSW IRC next month, in which they are seeking a 35% pay rise to remedy gender undervaluation.
The MEU says Rio Tinto's workforce is stunned by the resource titan's decision to cut its three-month personal leave entitlement to 12 days for its West Australian iron-ore workers, which WA branch secretary Greg Busson says provides a "timely example" of why the company's workers need an agreement.
The ACTU is calling on the Albanese Government ahead of its economic reform roundtable to resuscitate a 1990s training levy on businesses to upskill workers to meet the demands of a "modern economy", including energy transition, diversification and AI.
