The Albanese government has appointed Mordy Bromberg, a senior Federal Court judge who jointly leads its employment and IR practice area, as president of the Australian Law Reform Commission.
As the CFMMEU's mining and energy division eagerly awaits the result of its demerger ballot, expected to be declared on Thursday, the RTBU's Victorian branch has told a FWC bench its locomotive division will be unable to protect members' interests if allowed to disamalgamate as it does not own the money in its bank accounts.
The prevalence of non-compete clauses in low wage occupations suggests that businesses are using them to stop workers from creating rival operations and to limit their bargaining power, rather than legitimately using them to protect trade secrets and client relationships, a new survey suggests.
A trio of IR academics say that DEWR's proposed regulations risk creating a third category of worker that employers might use to downgrade their employees to employee-like workers "resulting in a wider downgrade of the terms and conditions of work across the economy".
The NSW IRC has reinstated a police technician for the second time in six years after he was again sacked for abusive outbursts – this time targeting rail workers during industrial action that affected his commute.
The FWC is considering three applications for authorisation of private agents to conduct protected action ballots, but in the interim it is having to make findings that there are exceptional circumstances for unions to utilise them, such as a need to conduct electronic votes, an option unavailable from default provider the AEC.
In the latest of a rash of PABO decisions since new Secure Jobs provisions took effect on June 6, the FWC has ruled that an employer's bid to bypass unions and put its agreement to a vote provides exceptional circumstances to warrant using a non-AEC ballot agent.
In the first test of new supported bargaining laws, the FWC will hear in mid-August the landmark application to authorise multi-employer negotiations involving 65 employers and 12,000 workers in the early childhood education and care sector.
A HR administrator who exhibited "delusions of grandeur" in her belief that she had been promoted to HR manager has had her general protections claim thrown out by the FWC.
A full Federal Court has ruled a major contractor that lost its aged care contract after almost 20 years could not rely on the "ordinary and customary turnover of labour" provision that would have relieved it of the obligation of making redundancy payments to its employees.
