The FWC has refused a carpetmaker's mid-negotiation bid to scrap an agreement claimed to be so expensive and restrictive that it might force it to close within months, finding that termination would reduce job security and change the bargaining dynamic.
The ANMF has told the Senate work and care inquiry that ordinary full-time hours should be reduced from 38 hours to 32 to enable workers to achieve a better balance of work and caring responsibilities.
The Productivity Commission says the workplace tribunal should have a "fast-track process" for early involvement in industrial disputes on the docks, while waterfront employers should have more options for taking their own protected action beyond lockouts.
A crossbencher whose vote will be critical to the passage of Labor IR changes has told the Senate in her first speech that "decent people need decent work for decent pay".
Major aviation services provider dnata has struck an in-principle agreement for a new enterprise agreement, averting protected action planned for Monday.
The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations this week began consulting on Labor's plans to change the Fair Work Act, including the contested proposals for multi-employer bargaining and the BOOT, while further details have emerged about the process for drafting the post-summit white paper.
Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers says that Labor's "big agenda" on superannuation does not currently include lifting compulsory super contributions from 12% to 15%.
A FWC member wrongly concluded that he lacked the power to hear the case of a university employee sacked for refusing to comply with COVID-19 vaccination directions, a full bench has found.
Real unit labour costs have dropped for four successive quarters, while the labour share of income has fallen to a new record low and the profits share has hit a new high, according to ABS national accounts data released today.
A new Labor MP has described her personal experience of the "ache of insecure work" in the tertiary education sector to reinforce why it has become one of the primary targets in the Albanese Government's legislative agenda.
