Labour force participation is likely to drop from a near-record high of 66.6% to 63.8% over the next 40 years, although the projected reduction might be offset if older, female and migrant workers make a bigger contribution, according to the Albanese Government's first five-yearly Intergenerational Report.
Woodside has narrowly averted impending industrial action at its North West Shelf gas platforms after reaching an in-principle deal endorsed by Offshore Alliance and ETU members this morning, while protected action ballots at Chevron are set to close today.
The FSU says Commonwealth Bank retail workers forced to work through their 10-minute tea breaks for the past six years will be compensated, after it won a $3 million settlement of its $45 million Federal Court claim.
The IEU's WA branch has hit back at an employer group's submissions in its Catholic schools single interest multi-employer test case, warning against elevating the status of "irrelevant" views and declaring its construction of the legislation could create a "peculiar result".
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a Coca Cola regional technician who deliberately set the cruise control on his work van above the speed limit and repeatedly overshot it by up to 18km, rejecting claims about the alleged inaccuracy of the employer's monitoring technology.
Creative Workplaces Council to set sector-specific pay, safety standards, says Burke; Federal Court IR seminar/webinar next month; and UK cost of living crisis driving WFH rise: ACAS.
The NTEU has failed to block the approval of a CPSU-backed university agreement on the basis that casuals were not "employed at the time" of the access period and vote, with the tribunal instead finding they accepted offers of continuing employment.
The FWC has upheld an employer's decision to sack an electrician for s-xually harassing behaviour that included asking a new supervisor on first meeting him whether he "liked to f-ck".
The loss of at least $835 million a year to wage theft underlines the importance of supporting the Albanese Government's third tranche reforms to criminalise the practice, according to a McKell Institute report also suggesting that new federal laws should "co-exist" with state laws.
