The MBA is today calling on the Albanese Government to give a firm undertaking to exclude industries outside the gig-economy before introducing legislation targeting employee-like forms of work, after IR Minister Tony Burke sought to hose down concerns it leaves the door open for a far broader remit.
The CFMMEU's mining and energy division will oppose approval of an agreement for maintenance work at BHP's in-house labour hire arm and seek authorisation for industrial action to spur improvement to its spurned production agreement, while Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has warned against taking as "gospel" the company's claims about the effects of the "same job, same pay" proposal on jobs and its bottom line.
A male doctor has lost his bid to join to his s-x discrimination case a female ER manager who applied for a personal safety intervention order against him.
Optus has failed in its bid to overturn a finding that short-changing workers' long service leave entitlements when they leave the telco might count as a continuing offence under Victoria's LSL legislation, potentially leaving it to clock-up daily fines until it rectified the alleged issue.
The ASU says it has secured big wins in a newly-approved Qantas deal after the Flying Kangaroo agreed to backdated 3% annual pay rises, an additional 3.6% from last week for a majority, greater roster stability and no outsourcing of members' ground handling work, though it will shift about 850 "senior professionals" onto individual contracts.
A tribunal has stayed a teacher's unfair dismissal claim while he awaits the result of his "working with children" check, after the NSW Department of Education sacked him for allegedly contacting a student on Grindr and then having s-x with him at school.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has expanded the role of Assistant Minister Dr Andrew Leigh to include the administration of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations.
Victoria's Andrews Labor government faces a backlash from public sector unions over a plan to cut up to 4000 jobs this year as part of a longer-term strategy to reduce debt incurred in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ACTU is calling on the Albanese Government to make it easier for those "misclassified" as casuals to recover their full entitlements, with its research showing casual workers earn nearly 11% less than permanent employees of the same skill level or occupation and most are in long-term arrangements.
A senior FWC member has continued to resist CFMMEU intercession in the approval of non-union deals, condemning it for straying beyond his direction that it confine its submissions on a demolition company's rollover agreement to a BOOT assessment.
