The NTEU is set for a contested election for its key national full-time positions, against a backdrop of major university job losses in recent years, widespread investigations into wage theft and grassroots agitation over the extent of casual employment.
In a novel ruling, the FWC has canvassed whether an employer discriminated against a worker because of her social origin status as an "anti-vaxxer," but has upheld her dismissal.
A new RBA report says that greater job mobility tends to be associated with higher individual and aggregate wages and makes it clear the "great resignation" is a distinctly American and British phenomenon.
IR Minister Tony Burke intends to introduce paid family and domestic violence leave legislation during Parliament's first sitting period under the Albanese Labor Government and to put before parliament a raft of further labour reforms by year's end.
A finding that the FWC cannot keep dealing with disputes brought under old agreements once a new deal comes into effect has produced "arbitrary, anomalous and nonsensical outcomes" and is wrong, a full bench has held, calling for an amendment to the Fair Work Act to reflect the new precedent.
The Albanese Labor Government has confirmed today that it will legislate "as soon as possible" to incorporate 10 days' paid family and domestic violence leave into the National Employment Standards.
IR Minister Tony Burke has appointed ACTU senior legal and industrial officer for gender equity, Sophie Ismail, to a key role in his office, in an indication of the importance the new Albanese Labor Government is placing on workplace gender issues.
The Remuneration Tribunal has awarded Federal MPs a a 2.75% pay increase - well behind the 5.1% rate of headline consumer price inflation - from July 1.
Tasmania has emerged as the battleground for the NTEU's campaign for 30 days a year of paid gender affirmation leave at all universities to help transgender and gender diverse workers to stay in their jobs.
