A NTEU "wage theft" report predicting underpayments in the university sector are about to surpass $90 million calls on the Albanese Government to tackle it with "strong criminal penalties" in this year's tranche of IR reforms, while the Greens are urging immediate action.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says Labor's plan to legislate an objective for the super system will avoid a repeat of the Coalition's early release "debacle" at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
Ahead of a hearing into the mining and energy division's increasingly-clear path to split from the CFMMEU, the latter has consented to revised rule changes and RO Commissioner Mark Bielecki has confirmed he will no longer participate.
A casual Census collector sacked by the ABS for calling on her 7000 LinkedIn connections to revolt against COVID-19 lockdowns has failed to persuade a court that it "violently" discriminated against her.
A judge has criticised the FWO for seeking "excessive" penalties against two restaurant businesses and reduced the penalties from the $250,000 the FWO sought to just $32,000 after it emerged that their director is broke and had been contemplating suicide.
The winding-up of the ROC early next month is set to trigger a compensation payment of about $130,000 for Registered Organisations Commissioner Mark Bielecki.
NSW Employment Relations Minister Damien Tudehope has resigned this evening after questions arose about his family's shares in tollway operator Transurban.
Following win-some-lose-some appeals in Macquarie Bank's battle with 50 former wealth advisors previously found to be owed leave entitlements, the bank looks set to recoup the bulk of a $1.6 million payout, with a full Federal Court majority submitting several aspects of the cases for redetermination.
Users can register now for the FWC's new digital tool to integrate minimum award rates of pay, allowances, overtime and penalty rates data into accounting software and payroll systems, ahead of its March 20 launch, while the tribunal is also about to release a range of other "digital transformation" initiatives.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has today announced that the ALP candidate for an upcoming federal by-election will be former union organiser and and long-serving ACTU manager Mary Doyle.
