A tribunal has ordered a disability support service to pay a worker $10,000 damages and three months wages, after it failed to engage her because of her disability.
A Queensland LNP senator has used a Senate Estimates hearing to grill DEWR secretary Natalie James over her total remuneration package of $845,650 and why she could not remember how much she is paid when asked.
A two-year pay freeze is set to be imposed on NSW politicians earning more than a base salary and the State's high-earning bureaucrats as the Minns Labor Government vows to redirect the savings to "essential service" workers such as teachers and nurses.
The ACTU has taken aim at BHP, Qantas, Qube and CIMIC in a paper warning that employers will continue to exploit outsourcing "loopholes" to suppress wages unless Same Job, Same Pay measures extending to internal labour hire subsidiaries are passed into law.
A new review has urged the Albanese Government to increase the number of entities required to lodge modern slavery statements, with penalties introduced for failing to meet reporting standards.
Many employers are still scrambling to work out what the next raft of Secure Jobs changes will mean for them when they take effect next Tuesday and fear being "caught by surprise", according to the Ai Group, while the FWC has added a series of videos to its information packages on the amendments.
The former contracts manager of an ASX-listed mining company has been ordered to pay half his former employer's costs in defending an appeal against a judge's decision to strike out most of a general protections claim filed as the company pursues him for allegedly earning "secret profits".
Interested parties have until June 16 to respond to a FWC bench's proposal to amend model award terms to highlight the two "alternative and parallel avenues" now available to resolve disputes over flexible work and unpaid parental leave requests.
Gig workers should not be able to challenge their removal from platforms on the ground of unfairness and a separate jurisdiction charged with setting minimum standards ought to deal only with pay, not other conditions such as portable leave and rest break entitlements, according to a Business Council response to the Albanese Government's plan to empower the FWC to deal with "employee-like" forms of work.
