Despite Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke's reluctance to hold back parts of the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill and its many "positive reforms", a leading labour law and IR academic says drafting issues and crossbench concerns will make fast passage a challenge.
A court has told the RTBU it will have to wait until next year to learn whether it might be exposed to damages after Sydney Trains workers bargaining for a new deal gave customers "free rides" as part of industrial action over a six-week period.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has upheld a finding that a labour hire company must make redundancy payments to a dozen employees, detailing the steps made by its chief people officer but ruling it didn't do enough to procure alternative employment for its workforce.
Maritime workers have resumed protected industrial action at tug boat operator Svitzer Australia, maintaining that enterprise negotiations have stalled because the company is refusing to bargain in good faith as it proceeds with its bid to terminate its nominally-expired 2016 deal.
A FWC full bench has lashed energy giant Woodside for its "impertinent" suggestion that a senior tribunal member should have supplied evidence that directions she issued while considering an AWU majority support bid, came from a Commission template.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke says he is "deeply reluctant" to hold back parts of the Albanese Government's IR legislation, as suggested by crossbench senators who will decide the fate of the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill.
In the first step in his "rebalancing" of the FWC, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has promoted two commissioners and extended the term of another who is due to soon retire.
New Zealand's Ardern Labour Government is preparing for the introduction of occupational and industry-wide bargaining from December 1 after the passage of the landmark Fair Pay Agreements Bill last week.
In a significant ruling on supposed 'cancel culture', a court has found a leading sandstone university and its former deputy vice chancellor breached an agreement's intellectual freedom clause when the institution sacked a lecturer for superimposing a swastika on a posted image of an Israeli flag.
The FWC has granted a worker an extension of time after its server "quarantined" his unfair dismissal claim email because of a "dangerous" attachment, but the Commission says that the issue will soon be remedied when it requires lodgement via an online form.
