The FWC's approach to assessing flexible work disputes is potentially undermining workers' rights to plan ahead, an academic has warned, after the tribunal held that a Sydney Water employee could not make such a request in the lead-up to his 55th birthday, and found a father ineligible until he finalised his custody arrangement.
As a leading employer-clientele lawyer hosed down fears about WFH "chaos" in the wake of the recent Chandler decision, the Greens have introduced legislation giving employees the right to work remotely for at least two days a week unless fulfilling their roles is "impractical or impossible".
A Coalition private senator's bill sold as tackling the retirement savings gender gap is a ruse that "will allow already very wealthy Australians to funnel even more of their wealth into their super", according to the Greens, while Labor damned it for "empower[ing] the generationally wealthy".
The FWC has upheld the sacking by Australia Post subsidiary StarTrack Express of a TWU delegate for a trio of safety breaches, finding each one of them justified his dismissal.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has departed from RTAG advice in scheduling a truck driver's bid to vary the long distance road transport award ahead of hearings from the middle of next year to deal with four key TWU gig food/beverage delivery, last-mile delivery minimum standards and road transport contractual chain cases.
The Wood inquiry into the CFMEU construction and general division in Queensland has set down two tranches of hearings, as it rebuilds its counsel assisting team after a string of resignations.
Gender equality is improving but women's workplace safety has declined over the past decade, while uneven domestic workloads and men's low uptake of parental leave are also impeding progress, according to a new national index measuring progress across seven key dimensions.
Employers will be required from July next year to make super contributions within seven calendar days of paying their workers' wages and salaries, after enabling legislation passed Parliament today.
A tribunal has upheld an employer's decision to suspend without pay a nurse charged with the digital r-pe of a paediatric patient's mother, until criminal proceedings have been decided.
