The Minerals Council has revealed it expects to spend up to $24 million on its advertising campaign against the Albanese Government's Loopholes Bill during the current financial year, exceeding the amount the resources sector directed into its efforts to slay the previous Labor Government's super profits tax in 2010.
Annual consumer price inflation of 5.4% continues the fall from last year's near-8% high, but monthly figures are heading in the wrong direction, according to ABS quarterly statistics released today.
The ACTU is pushing for the Closing Loopholes legislation to empower the FWC to set minimum standards for all "employee-like" workers, not just those engaged in digital platform work.
The union that won the first multi-employer bargaining authorisation under the Secure Jobs provisions is now seeking an intractable bargaining declaration as Catholic school teachers prepare to vote on a third unilateral offer after two years of fruitless single-interest bargaining.
Shine and RAFFWU are preparing a class action against KFC to win compensation for potentially tens of thousands of workers allegedly denied proper rest breaks, weeks after the Federal Court slammed the SDA over its approach to McDonald's rest breaks litigation and decided its case should run concurrently with an earlier Shine/RAFFWU proceeding.
Australia’s largest family-owned office supplies company unfairly sacked an account manager when it claimed she repudiated her contract by refusing to get a COVID-19 jab, the FWC has found.
A new FWC presidential member whose father once headed the NSW IRC has paid tribute to the "courage" of care workers and domestic violence victims whose deeply personal stories helped drive substantial changes to pay rates and leave entitlements through the Commission.
The RTBU and ASU will today test whether employers can make deals directly with their employees after the termination of protected action to bypass the subsequent 21 days of negotiations and avoid the ensuing arbitration of an agreement.
The Government should boost parental leave payments to a replacement wage, and create a positive duty to "reasonably accomodate" pregnant workers and workers with family responsibilities, according to the women's economic equality taskforce final report, released today.
The Closing Loopholes Bill's proposed casual employment definition is "uncertain" and might make the risk of maintaining a casual workforce "simply too high", leading employer-clientele silk Stuart Wood has told the the BCA in advice commissioned before its appearance at the inquiry into the legislation, while the peak body has also revealed the cost of its pro-casual advertising campaign.
