Employsure has rejected a sales worker's claims that it subjected him to discrimination, bullying and coercion after he applied for parental leave and challenged a claimed unilateral downgrading of employees' conditions, and says it does not know how a record he kept of his treatment came to be destroyed.
The Australian Electoral Commission is prosecuting the CFMMEU over posters that criticised sitting Federal Labor MP and former ACTU president Ged Kearney in the lead-up to last year's Federal election.
Victoria's Andrews Labor Government is facing increasing pressure from unions over a push to cut thousands of jobs and its acceptance of the need to lift its 1.5% public sector wage cap in the State Budget on May 23.
Stevedoring giant Qube has failed to overturn a ruling that it should have slashed the minimum number of hours salaried dockworkers needed to work in a year after withholding their pay over 11 weeks of protected industrial action.
The Albanese Government's public sector bargaining policy says the APSC will work to boost flexibility and mobility via a set of common conditions and by tackling disparity between agencies, but flags it will likely take multiple rounds to fix pay fragmentation.
The Albanese Government's third tranche of IR legislation will seek to repeal changes introduced by the Coalition in 2020 that broadened the scope for union demergers.
Legislation introduced today by the Albanese Government is the first step in "closing loopholes" that "undercut" workers, says Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke.
The FWC has rejected an unvaccinated child protection officer's faith-based challenge to her sacking, despite claims that requiring her to get a COVID-19 jab is akin to asking a Muslim worker "to have injections that s/he considered not Halal".
