Victoria's Andrews Labor Government is facing increasing pressure from unions over a push to cut thousands of jobs and its acceptance of the need to lift its 1.5% public sector wage cap in the State Budget on May 23.
Stevedoring giant Qube has failed to overturn a ruling that it should have slashed the minimum number of hours salaried dockworkers needed to work in a year after withholding their pay over 11 weeks of protected industrial action.
The Albanese Government's public sector bargaining policy says the APSC will work to boost flexibility and mobility via a set of common conditions and by tackling disparity between agencies, but flags it will likely take multiple rounds to fix pay fragmentation.
The Albanese Government's third tranche of IR legislation will seek to repeal changes introduced by the Coalition in 2020 that broadened the scope for union demergers.
Legislation introduced today by the Albanese Government is the first step in "closing loopholes" that "undercut" workers, says Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke.
The FWC has rejected an unvaccinated child protection officer's faith-based challenge to her sacking, despite claims that requiring her to get a COVID-19 jab is akin to asking a Muslim worker "to have injections that s/he considered not Halal".
ACTU president Michele O'Neil has called for the Albanese Labor Government to support the union push for "fair" increases in the minimum wage amid high inflation, while making it clear that the movement's historic opposition to nuclear power and weapons remains unchanged in the wake of the AUKUS submarine deal.
The Albanese Government says it will amend the Fair Work Act to underline that temporary migrant workers are entitled to its protections, as it continues its drip-feed of provisions in the Protecting Worker Entitlements Bill to be introduced to Parliament this week.
BHP's in-house labour hire company faces penalties after a full Federal Court found it unreasonably required up to 85 production employees to work across Christmas holidays.
The FWC has focused on the difference between "probability" and "possibility" in its reasons for rejecting a bid by a company providing search and rescue services to terminate protected industrial action on the basis that it could endanger lives.
