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.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has today written to FWC President Iain Ross to advise of "impending" legislative changes that will prevent employers using terminations as a bargaining tactic.
The Albanese Labor Government will establish a tripartite National Construction Industry Forum to address issues such as mental health, safety training, apprentices, productivity, culture, diversity and gender equity in the building sector.
Employers says an Albanese Government decision to boost skilled migrant numbers by more than 20% this financial year is a "win" for advocacy at the jobs summit, while Labor says there is "consensus" it needs to raise the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold.
Relationships Australia has told a Senate inquiry that the Albanese Government should extend its proposed 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave entitlement to perpetrators, as well as victims.
The FWC has approved the termination of a small business's agreement after a tribunal member took the rare step of inviting workers to attend a teleconference where he spelled out the implications of reverting to the award.
Unions say an "eleventh hour" NSW Government ultimatum to seek to terminate deals covering train workers unless they call off all protected action by tomorrow afternoon is a clear example of the type of action that federal IR Minister Tony Burke will not support.
A prominent IR academic has told today's jobs summit that the optimism that attended the Fair Work Act's introduction in 2009 was "misplaced", with workers in the years since unable to effectively exercise power when bargaining.
Federal IR Minister Tony Burke has announced hours into the opening day of the jobs summit that the Albanese Federal Government is ready to take "immediate action" on boosting access to multi-employer agreements and flexible arrangements, along with simplifying the BOOT.
