Former ACTU manager Mary Doyle has used her first parliamentary speech to urge Australians to "re-embrace" concepts of welfare and social security, drawing on her experiences of having an alcoholic father on an invalid pension and requiring support as she recovered from cancer surgery to aver that "these are not dirty words".
A government security agency has failed to dissuade the FWC from further delaying a former employee's unfair dismissal case while he continues to defend indecency and stalking charges.
The ASU has welcomed an early NDIS review recommendation for the Albanese Government to collaborate with the states and territories to test a portable leave scheme, while the review panel says migrant workers should also enjoy the same standards as the domestic workforce.
The MBA is urging the Albanese Government to drop its plan to empower the FWC to deal with "employee-like" work, but says that if it is determined to go ahead, then the new jurisdiction should be confined to digital platform workers.
A review of modern awards by the FWC will consider whether coverage should be extended in the arts sector, the other portfolio held by Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke.
The FWC will today convene its first annual members' conference in five years, as it prepares for the Secure Jobs bargaining and agreement changes that take effect next month.
Despite warning of an "unbounded period" of entitlement, DEWR has failed to overturn an AAT finding that a real estate salesperson is eligible for FEG payments reflecting sales commissions that did not fall due until properties settled after the 13-week statutory window.
Bench issues reasons for 15% aged care rise; Boland to conduct safety review; Tudehope returns to IR portfolio in Opposition; Entitlement Bill's super provision to remedy shortcoming, says Digest; and Enforceable undertakings for UTS, Uniting Agewell.
A tribunal has dismissed a male lawyer's s-x discrimination case, after he accused a law firm of not hiring him because it favoured female candidates, claiming that he experienced a greater degree of humiliation because of the "very attractive and beautiful" interviewers.
The FWC has ordered a company to compensate a long-serving 72-year-old worker sacked via a text declaring it had made his position "an honorary role", after hearing its general manager felt he had a cultural duty to show respect for his elders and sought to soften the blow.
