A former Queensland Office of IR principal inspector has failed to halt disciplinary action over incendiary messages he exchanged with colleagues on the Signal app over plans to close his business unit, including saying he was ready to "b-tch-flog" a female boss and use a piece of "4x2 with rusty nails".
NSWNMA assistant general secretary Michael Whaites has been appointed to the top job after general secretary Shaye Candish announced she is stepping down after three years.
MEU general president Tony Maher is retiring after 27 years at the helm, where he is credited with driving same-job, same-pay reforms that have delivered $150 million to coal mineworkers and withdrawing from the CFMEU when the amalgamated union "no longer served members' interests".
Artificial intelligence "has its downsides" but has largely lifted the quality of self-represented litigants' submissions to the FWC, while improving their access to justice, a senior member told last week's NSW IR Society Newcastle branch annual conference
After five decades, the Racial Discrimination Act is due for a review akin to the landmark Jenkins Sex Discrimination Act inquiry, according to a leading academic, while ACTU leader Sally McManus says unions are grappling with how to increase the racial diversity in their leadership.
The FWC has ruled a BHP subsidiary unfairly dismissed a worker, because the employer found the former amateur boxer had been an "aggressive and intimidating" provocateur during a verbal altercation, but it failed to consider evidence that backed up his version of events.
Victoria's Catholic school teachers and support staff have rejected a non-union agreement offer, while the IEU says support is growing for its application for a single interest bargaining authorisation through which it is seeking to secure a statewide deal.
Victoria's Allan Labor Government has today introduced legislation to restrict the use of non-disclosure agreements in settlements of workplace s-xual harassment cases.
Consumer price inflation lifted by 3.2% in the year to September, up sharply from 2.1% annually in the previous quarter, but still below wages growth over 12 months of 3.4%, according to the ABS.
Uber's "deactivation" practices have been put under the microscope again, with the FWC ordering it to reinstate a driver booted from the platform after the rideshare giant failed to properly put allegations to him that he kissed, hugged and flirted with drunk passengers.
