A stone benchtops company ordered to pay $163,000 in compensation and damages to a veteran stonemason dismissed because of his work-related silicosis must now pay him a further $76,000 in fines for unlawful and discriminatory adverse action.
The Albanese Government has tabled 34 pages of amendments to its signature IR Bill that include a stipulation that protected action ballot orders must be issued for each enterprise involved in multi-employer bargaining, while employer and business organisations are calling tonight for Labor to abandon "or substantially" amend its bargaining changes
The Fair Work Ombudsman will absorb just 16 of the near-150-strong pre-election ABCC workforce, despite taking over the watchdog's role in policing commercial construction workplaces from tomorrow, DEWR told a Senate Estimates hearing last night.
A Federal Court judge has while fining a franchisor almost $500,000 for deliberately underpaying Taiwanese interns speculated that a recent High Court ruling will impel more parties to agree on penalties rather than go to trial, an "unfortunate by-product" being fewer judgments offering "yardsticks" for future cases.
The FWC has upheld the demotion of a Catholic school teacher who continually undermined the schools' leadership before maintaining that his "only master was God".
Howard Government Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith, the architect of the 1996 Workplace Relations Act and a prime mover with Patrick's Chris Corrigan in the landmark 1998 waterfront dispute, died today.
While the Albanese Government remains hopeful it can make multi-employer bargaining changes more palatable to win Senate support, a labour law expert says onerous requirements will limit the effectiveness of the expanded single-interest stream.
In the wake of Friday's decision to pay an interim 15% rise to some aged care workers, FWC president Iain Ross has underlined that in work value cases seeking to establish gender-based occupational segregation, extensive evidence is required.
The Albanese Government will today table its foreshadowed amendments to the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill, as it seeks to provide "more comfort" to key Independent Senator David Pocock on proposed multi-employer bargaining reforms.
The FWC has found that a worker sacked by the Ubuntu Church for obtaining a COVID-19 vaccination is an employee, clearing the way for her to pursue an unfair dismissal claim.
