A former coal miner who is the new Federal Labor member for Hunter has used his first speech to call out "dodgy labour-hire arrangements", while praising the government's "same job, same pay" agenda.
The Albanese Government has today released the terms of reference for the Employment White Paper, confirming that its planned changes to the Fair Work Act will come well before that process ends.
Justice Jayne Jagot, a regular member of Federal Court benches considering IR matters, has today joined the first High Court to feature a majority of women.
The FWC has acknowledged both the work/family difficulties faced by remote workers and employers' challenges in managing employees scattered across the country in upholding the dismissal of a FIFO mine worker sacked for abandoning his employment after he left work without approved leave and failed to provide a return date.
A senior FWC member has lambasted an "incompetent" and "belligerent" representative involved in numerous challenges to vaccination-related dismissals, bemoaning that a regulatory gap prevented him from awarding costs against the offending individual.
The FWC has in upholding Telstra's right to trim costs by changing shift arrangements for its most experienced technicians suggested it review its HR practices to avoid confusion when such variations are made in future.
A court has found that a union official needed to bring his phone onto a worksite to protect the rights of employees he represented, ruling that a meat processing company unlawfully hindered him by refusing entry unless he surrendered it.
