A court has found that a union official needed to bring his phone onto a worksite to protect the rights of employees he represented, ruling that a meat processing company unlawfully hindered him by refusing entry unless he surrendered it.
A new report says that wage theft in Australian freight shipping is costing seafarers about $65 million a year and necessitates changes to the Fair Work Act and greater powers and cooperation for regulators.
The Albanese Government has adopted the FWC's proposed amendment to its legislation to introduce 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave, while it is separately pushing ahead with ratifying an ILO convention on the minimum working age.
The Albanese Government has today introduced legislation that implements a further seven of Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins' Respect@Work recommendations, including a positive duty for employers to prevent workplace sex discrimination, harassment and victimisation, which the former Coalition Government resisted.
The TWU has failed to persuade the FWC that Sydney public bus drivers who turn off ticket machines as part of protected action are still eligible for a daily allowance for carrying fare-paying passengers.
The FWC's new leading indicator of bargained wage rises - officially launched today - shows that deals lodged in the first half of last month paid an average increase of 3%, up on those in the most recent DEWR data.
A long-serving former employee of a company that deliberately restructured to offload severance obligations onto the publicly-funded FEG scheme has had his redundancy payout substantially increased, after the AAT ruled that a "grand chapel" deal with the AMWU "grandfathered" generous provisions in an earlier enterprise agreement.
The FWC has extended time to accept an unfair dismissal claim from a worker suffering from mental illness and supporting a close family member experiencing family violence.
The Law Council has told a Senate inquiry that the unpaid carers leave entitlement should be extended but the ASU claims this would increase gender inequality because more carers would take time off from paid work, exacerbating pay inequity and increasing retirement savings gaps.
