The FWC has upheld Sydney Trains' dismissal of a long-serving station manager for breaching its code of conduct when he failed to disclose serious criminal charges, including possession of more than two kilograms of cannabis he claimed to be holding "for a friend".
The ACCC has flagged its willingness to examine no-poaching clauses in employment contracts and to reconsider the long-standing shielding of IR arrangements from competition laws.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has dropped another case transferred from the ABCC, meaning that three matters inherited from the former construction watchdog have been discontinued.
The FWC has accepted the rehabilitation of a CFMMEU organiser penalised for a perceived racial slur, issuing him with an entry permit three years after he surrendered his previous one.
A Treasury paper revealing a "motherhood penalty", in which women's earnings fall by an average of 55% in the first five years of parenthood while men's are unchanged, suggests there is a role for policy to reduce barriers to a more equal allocation of household duties.
The Baby Boomer adage that 70 is the new 40 does not apply to work, according to an ANU submission to the Albanese Government's Employment White Paper.
Australian and Canadian governments promote their working holiday visa schemes for their "cultural exchange" but use them to fulfil labour demand in "occupations and industries characterised by precarious jobs undesirable to locals," according to a new paper published in the Journal of IR.
A full bench has vacated directions to make way for a care and community sector expert panel to consider whether to extend coverage of an education award to rope-in workers in independently-operated student boarding houses.
The FWC has rejected an employer's claim that it should throw out an employee's unfair dismissal claim because his earnings exceeded the high-income threshold by almost $40,000.
