The TWU has called on the administrators of Deliveroo Australia Pty Ltd to support the Federal Circuit Court delivering a judgment on whether a former food delivery driver was a casual employee or a contractor.
The Albanese Government had dropped contentious "cost neutrality" provisions from its Respect@Work Bill and will refer the matter to the Attorney-General's Department, which will conduct a review.
The Victorian Trades Hall Council has published a lengthy policy wish-list it wants implemented if the Andrews Labor Government is returned for a third term at tomorrow's State election, but the contest appears to have tightened since it released the manifesto last month.
The APS has achieved gender balance at senior leadership levels for the first time, although it still has a 6% gender pay gap, according to the latest annual update.
The Federal Court has upheld a FEG entitlements appeal because the "multi-factorial approach" applied when determining whether a worker is an employee has since been overruled by the High Court in Personnel Contracting and Jamsek.
More than 1,000 domestic cabin crew at Qantas have authorised protected action including 24-hour strikes and overtime bans in the lead-up to the busy pre-Christmas travel period, as their union resists the airline's push for longer rostered hours and to hold annual pay rises to 3% as inflation soars.
The FWC has held that TAFE NSW must offer permanency to three casuals in line with the Fair Work Act's conversion provisions but has refused a CPSU bid to cast the orders more widely to capture other casuals that meet the eligibility requirements.
As the Senate prepares to consider the Albanese Government's Secure Jobs Bill, a new ACTU paper says the legislation's multi-employer bargaining provisions will be crucial in lifting wages in seven of the eight industries with above-average gender pay gaps.
Former IR minister Michaelia Cash has suggested that her predecessor in the role, Peter Reith, would have "enjoyed the irony" of his death coming during heated debate over new workplace laws, while Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed that the two got on "extremely well" over lunch in London after he left politics.
