A federal parliamentary inquiry has recommended changing the House of Representatives' rules to prohibit MPs using s-xist, racist, homophobic and "otherwise exclusionary or discriminatory" terms against each other, in response to former s-x discrimination commissioner Kate Jenkins' Set the Standard report.
Scott Morrison's former policy director has been given extra time to pursue an adverse action case alleging discrimination against one of Australia's best-connected lobbying firms, which claims he resigned after it denied him a stake in the business.
The UFU's Victorian branch will press ahead with an application under the Secure Jobs intractable bargaining provisions, despite receiving a long-awaited pay offer covering thousands of firefighters.
The Australian Industry Group has weighed into the early childhood education and care sector supported bargaining test case to tell the FWC it is not its job to "rubber stamp" applications even if all parties desire it and to warn of significant implications for those who might be "selectively excluded" but risk being roped in later.
A FWC full bench has trimmed a union-sought extension to three zombie deals covering more than 500 IT workers after factoring in the Secure Jobs legislation's inherent "policy preference" for agreements negotiated under the Fair Work Act.
The ACTU has ramped up the prosecution of its case that profits rather than wages are fuelling inflation, securing former ACCC chair Alan Fels to conduct a public inquiry into "price gouging" and unfair pricing practices.
Education unions intend to hit the NSW Minns Government with "intense political action" after it proposed to pin three 2.5% annual pay rises on the back of a planned increase of up to 12%, while the author of a "blueprint" report is urging both parties to get "creative".
A charity did not "intend" to sack a casual carer seeking to resume shifts after recovering from a back injury, but its dithering and poor communications nevertheless "had that effect", the FWC has found.
The looming enforcement of a positive duty on employers to prevent s-xual discrimination and harassment will require responsible "bystander interaction" as well as workplace leadership, according to the president of the Australian Human Rights Commission.
