Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has denied that the adverse action case initiated by the former chief-of-staff to Independent Federal MP Monique Ryan prompted more funding for electorate staff in the Federal Budget.
The UWU plans to accelerate multi-employer bargaining in early childhood education and childcare after the Albanese Government's 2023 Budget failed to fund pay increases for the sector.
The FWC has set out how it will tackle disputes over requests for flexible working arrangements and extensions to unpaid parental leave once Secure Jobs amendments boosting workers' ability to overturn unreasonable knock-backs come into effect on June 6.
A trainee disability therapist sacked for failing to complete the necessary accreditation has won compensation after the FWC found his employer gave him insufficient time to correct the situation following his "confrontational" response to being stood-down.
The CPSU has welcomed the creation of an additional 10,800 extra public sector jobs in the Albanese Government's second Budget, but says that "significant improvements" are still needed to wages and conditions, ahead of the Government tabling its APS-wide bargaining offer next week.
Wage growth will exceed inflation from early next year and beat prices by 0.75 percentage points by mid-year, according to the Albanese Government's second Federal Budget.
Labor Senator Tony Sheldon has hinted the Albanese Government will move quickly to introduce "urgent" legislative changes if the High Court overturns a Federal Court finding that Qantas took unlawful adverse action against nearly 2000 former ground crew when it rejected an in-house tender and outsourced their jobs.
The FWC has been taken into the heart of policy-making at one of the COVID-19 pandemic's most vulnerable working environments in declining to reinstate a vaccine-hesitant midwife sacked by Australia's largest private hospital operator.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a worker for telling a colleague during an argument that "I'll f-ck you in the a-se", finding that the choice of words went "far beyond" simply swearing in the workplace and constituted s-xual harassment.
The FWC has compensated an employee sacked for threatening a co-worker, finding that his employer failed to act on his prior complaints about the colleague "wanting to fight me in [the] yard".
