The Baby Boomer adage that 70 is the new 40 does not apply to work, according to an ANU submission to the Albanese Government's Employment White Paper.
Australian and Canadian governments promote their working holiday visa schemes for their "cultural exchange" but use them to fulfil labour demand in "occupations and industries characterised by precarious jobs undesirable to locals," according to a new paper published in the Journal of IR.
A full bench has vacated directions to make way for a care and community sector expert panel to consider whether to extend coverage of an education award to rope-in workers in independently-operated student boarding houses.
The FWC has rejected an employer's claim that it should throw out an employee's unfair dismissal claim because his earnings exceeded the high-income threshold by almost $40,000.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has told a ceremony to welcome Justice Adam Hatcher as FWC President that appointing him is probably the least controversial thing he has done, while others described him as respectful, formidable and forensically-minded, with a dry sense of humour.
The UFU's Victorian branch has won the first round of Federal Court proceedings in which it alleges a senior State Labor minister engaged in coercive conduct while intervening in a case before the FWC.
Public Service Minister Katy Gallagher has paid tribute to outgoing Public Service Commissioner Peter Woolcott, who has announced that he will retire when his five-year term ends.
Long-serving MUA national secretary Paddy Crumlin is facing a rank-and-file challenger in the union's quadrennial elections, which will also have contested polls for State leadership positions in Queensland and Victoria.
A court has penalised an experienced HR manager held to have humiliated a worker by speaking only to her husband about whether she was quitting and seizing on the first chance to get rid of her to avoid a bullying and harassment case, while the employer faces a near-$100,000 payout.
