ACTU president Michele O'Neil has called for the Albanese Labor Government to support the union push for "fair" increases in the minimum wage amid high inflation, while making it clear that the movement's historic opposition to nuclear power and weapons remains unchanged in the wake of the AUKUS submarine deal.
The Albanese Government says it will amend the Fair Work Act to underline that temporary migrant workers are entitled to its protections, as it continues its drip-feed of provisions in the Protecting Worker Entitlements Bill to be introduced to Parliament this week.
BHP's in-house labour hire company faces penalties after a full Federal Court found it unreasonably required up to 85 production employees to work across Christmas holidays.
The FWC has focused on the difference between "probability" and "possibility" in its reasons for rejecting a bid by a company providing search and rescue services to terminate protected industrial action on the basis that it could endanger lives.
A legislative package to be introduced to Parliament by the Albanese Government this week will boost flexible unpaid parental leave from 30 days over 24 months to 100 days.
The ACTU has won support from business and environment groups for its campaign to establish a tripartite National Energy Transition Authority that would provide comprehensive support for workers displaced as the nation phases-out coal-powered energy generation.
A distinctly elementary counting error has led to a FWC full bench quashing the rejection of a non-union university deal and returning it to the member for reconsideration.
Booth, Hamberger to review FWC regulation of registered organisations; Green light for AHA/AAA merger; and Wages up 3.5% in latest "real-time" snapshot.
Menulog has followed the lead of DoorDash and Uber in signing a charter with the TWU supporting federally legislated minimum rights and a disputes mechanism for gig delivery workers, but now also supports the new Minns NSW Labor Government's ambition to introduce state-based legislation.
