ALP senator Linda White hopes that Foreign Minister Penny Wong has forgiven her for the "relentless" equal pay campaign she helped successfully wage a decade ago when at the ASU and the party's current Senate leader had responsibility for finances in the Gillard Government.
Former Coalition staffer Rachelle Miller has followed a $650,000 settlement with the Commonwealth with a plea for MPs to support the establishment of an independent body to enforce codes of conduct in Federal parliamentary workplaces.
A full bench has upheld a finding that it would facilitate an "extensive invasion of privacy" if it granted Woodside Energy Ltd's bid to obtain personal details and email communications of workers who supported bargaining with the AWU.
A FWC bench has refused to adjourn this week's hearing of a union bid to overturn a deal under which employees can work "voluntary" additional hours without penalties.
A large employer had no need to pay for external lawyers when it could have relied on its HR team to argue against a former employee's "straightforward" vaccination case, the FWC has found.
It would be "very surprising" if NSW IR Minister Damien Tudehope received advice indicating that his federal counterpart might have sought to improperly influence the FWC when he wrote to it last week to alert it to agreement termination changes the Government decided at the jobs summit, according to Adelaide University Professor of Law, Andrew Stewart.
The ACCC has secured a maximum $750,000 fine against the CFMMEU for breaching competition laws when it pressured a major construction company to boycott a non-union subcontractor.
Tasmania's Supreme Court has upheld the State Industrial Commission's decision to reinstate a teacher accused of child s-x offences, so that he is suspended on full pay.
The Albanese Government has declared the jobs summit an "extraordinary success" and the start of a "new era of cooperation and consensus", but the BCA remains unconvinced on multi-employer bargaining.
The Albanese Government has unveiled plans to immediately start work on enabling the Fair Work Commission to "proactively" help workers and businesses reach agreements that benefit them, particularly in the case of new and/or small and medium enterprises.
