The Albanese Government has ratified ILO conventions setting a minimum working age and seeking to prevent workplace harassment and violence, with Skills and Training Minister Brendan O'Connor telling this year's international labour conference that tripartism "has never been so important".
Former ACTU leader and Gillard Government climate change minister Greg Combet will chair the Albanese Government's body that will oversee a "just transition" as climate change transforms the energy and resources sectors.
The UK's Sunak Conservative Government is consulting on a new statutory code to deter businesses from "firing and re-hiring" employees by empowering IR tribunals to order employers to pay 25% extra compensation if they fail to comply.
The FWC has granted a first-time entry permit to a CFMMEU organiser with an extensive criminal past that includes assault, auto theft, trespass, breaching a restraining order, property damage and weapons convictions after hearing he turned his life around following a 10-month jail term in 2017.
The FWC has awarded zero compensation to an unvaccinated former Boeing worker at the same time as it has lambasted the subsidiary that unfairly sacked him for failing to inform him of the result of his redeployment bid.
IR Minister Tony Burke says the Albanese Government is considering a multi-factor test as part of its Same Job, Same Pay proposals, after resources employer group AREEA argued this is "critical" to delineate between "traditional labour hire" and other arrangements.
Despite the FWO receiving only a modest funding increase for a bigger remit, Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker has told a Senate Estimates hearing that her organisation has scope to redirect some of the "generous" allocation it received when it took over some of the now-axed ABCC's functions.
Svitzer Australia workers have voted up a new national towage deal despite the MUA urging members to reject it in a late about-turn prompted by concerns that a union-proposed clause might let the company "outsource at any time" following consultation.
A court has awarded costs against a worker who scoffed at "ludicrous" settlement offers made by his former employer, suggesting he should have given more than 30 minutes' thought to the consequences before rejecting them.
