Neurodiversity advocates featured in a recent podcast say that workplaces should change their recruitment strategies and offer adjustments to all workers, to better support neurodiverse employees.
A prison officer who also works casually as a lawyer has lost his challenge to a Queensland Corrective Services ban on him representing colleagues in cases against it or in domestic violence, traffic offence and criminal matters.
Three-quarters of working women are suffering from painful periods, according to a continuing survey conducted by Maurice Blackburn that it is seeking to open up to a broader audience, as it prepares to use the data to lobby for reproductive leave and flexible work arrangements.
A FWC full bench has rejected a solicitor's challenge to a $36,000 costs order and will report him to the NSW Law Society over his misconduct in accusing another tribunal member of being a "Nazi" and taking bribes.
Adelaide University Professor of Law Andrew Stewart suggests that the Albanese Government's next tranche of legislation might be broken into two packages, while he says the proposal to empower the FWC to deal with "employee-like" work should be viewed a complement to defining employment, rather than a substitute.
The Federal Opposition has today raised concerns about the Albanese Government's appointment of what it says are Labor-linked union officials to the RBA's board, puncturing the bipartisanship after yesterday's release of the review of the central bank.
An industry group is hoping to press ahead with a pioneering multi-employer agreement for heating, ventilation and air conditioning businesses in NSW, after the AMWU provided reassurance that it remains committed to negotiations derailed by a contested union election.
Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe says the two new appointments to the RBA board - ex-FWC president Iain Ross and business executive Elana Rubin - came from an existing list of potential candidates.
An employer took adverse action against two union delegates when it retrenched them four hours before the deadline for voluntary redundancies, a court has found.
The Albanese Government has appointed former FWC president Iain Ross and ex-ACTU industrial officer Elana Rubin as part-time members of the RBA's Board, after it released the review of the central bank this morning.
