Economy-wide labour costs have risen modestly in the December quarter as workers' share of income maintains its rebound from record lows, according to ABS national accounts data released today.
"Similarities" with the case of a worker awarded compensation after being shown the door for missing a COVID-19 vaccination deadline have not been enough to persuade the FWC that a public utility unfairly dismissed an employee when it denied him a chance to wait for a Novavax jab.
A majority of Australia's governments have today agreed to incorporate industrial manslaughter provisions in the national model OHS laws, while they unanimously backed an immediate start to preparatory work for a ban on manufactured stone products linked with silicosis and other lung diseases.
The Albanese Government will cap the concessional tax treatment for earnings from superannuation accounts with balances exceeding $3 million from July 2025, it announced today.
Increasing access to flexible working arrangements, not creating a new entitlement to extended unpaid leave for those looking after older people, is a better way to plug Australia's "carer gap", the Productivity Commission says in a position paper that is out for public consultation.
The Albanese Government will today seek support from workplace safety ministers to develop a framework for a ban on manufactured stone products linked to a rise in silicosis cases.
Where the MUA failed, the UWU has won another shot at seeking a majority support determination for operations controllers at a gas storage facility after a FWC full bench held their use of specialist qualifications and knowledge does not exclude them from its eligibility rules.
Unions are pressing the Albanese Government to support nationally-harmonised industrial manslaughter laws at a meeting of workplace safety ministers tomorrow.
The FWC has rejected the FWO's forceful arguments against renewing a union organiser's entry permit after weighing his history of transgressions, doubts over whether he paid a court-ordered personal fine and evidence that training had better equipped him to avoid potential future breaches.
4.4% rises in latest "real-time" agreement data; DJs, fashion label sign enforceable undertakings; Peetz joins Centre for Future Work; and Hearing today into ratification of ILO convention.
