Productivity has far exceeded wage growth in mining and agriculture, but they have largely expanded together across the rest of the economy, and "productivity remains the key to continued wage growth and long-term prosperity", according to a new Productivity Commission report.
Federal Parliament has passed a trio of bills that establish the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service as an independent statutory HR agency and overhaul employment arrangements for parliamentary staff.
The FWC has listed three days of mediation from Monday in a bid to resolve the Chevron bargaining deadlock, ahead of full bench hearings from Friday on the company's applications for three intractable bargaining declarations, while Woodside platform workers are set to vote on their union-negotiated settlement.
Victoria's Andrews Labor government says the FWC should order a "confined" four-week period of post-declaration bargaining if it grants the IBD sought by the UFU in a bid to break a deadlock with Fire Rescue Victoria.
The ILO says AI-related workplace automation will disproportionately affect women, and the resulting job losses could threaten the increasing participation of females in the labour market.
Employers can comply with the new "positive duty" to eliminate sexual harassment and sex discrimination by fostering a respectful culture, ensuring workers have avenues to report incidents, and taking a "risk-based" approach to prevention, according to Human Rights Commission guidance.
The UK Labour Party has assured the nation's peak union body it will scrap anti-strike laws and introduce a package of reforms that include sectoral bargaining if it wins the next general election, expected next year.
The FWC has thrown out a cafe's argument that a worker who performed a single paid "trial shift" had not yet been engaged and could not bring a general protections case against it.
The TWU case seeking compensation and penalties from Qantas over the unlawful outsourcing of about 1700 ground crew jobs will return to the Federal Court next week following today's High Court decision.
One of the world's most powerful business leaders, BP global chief executive Bernard Looney, has resigned after a second review of his relationships with company colleagues.
