Offering a possible glimpse of things to come as the Albanese Government pushes for passage of its Loopholes Bill, Greens Senator Barbara Pocock has used a presentation to this year's ALERA conference to outline seven priorities that her party considers "very significant issues that need legislative attention".
A group representing rideshare drivers has called for Labor to change the Closing Loopholes Bill to retrospectively apply a new definition of employee that would assist it in a high-powered Federal Court case against Uber.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a kitchen hand who turned up intoxicated in his own time to prepare for his next shift, but has berated the employer over its "failure to exercise basic decency" when leaving him to find his own way home.
The new WA Labor Premier, Roger Cook, has written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to warn that he should consider industry concerns that the Closing Loopholes legislation might damage the mining and resources sector.
The Federal Court might be left to decide between competing KFC rest breaks class actions, with Gordon Legal revealing today it has filed a group action against Colonel Sanders two days after Shine Lawyers revealed it is building a RAFFWU-backed case.
Employers should consider modifying working conditions for pregnant women to mitigate premature birth risks, according to a Monash University study that found risks increased with physically demanding jobs, long hours, shiftwork, and exposure to whole-body vibration.
DEWR spent almost $200,000 on external legal and financial advice to rectify about $60,100 in employee underpayments, it told a Senate Estimates hearing yesterday.
The FWC will allow the Independent Education Union to start preparing evidence to support an intractable bargaining application for Catholic schools in Western Australia, ahead of teachers voting on the employer's third unilateral offer.
The 12-day gap between a concreter's two-day "trial" and starting full-time work did not count as "continuous" employment, leaving him just shy of the statutory minimum necessary to challenge his dismissal, the FWC has found.
A court has thrown out claims by a HR consultancy's former chief executive that she experienced relentless bullying, unilateral pay deductions and an excessive workload before her unlawful sacking in 2020 for allegedly misusing a corporate credit card.
