Labor has now won the 76 seats it needs to pass IR legislation in the lower house, but will still have to secure the support of the Greens and one more senator in the upper house.
The HSU is seeking in a Federal Court action to establish that outsourced kitchen and food services work performed in aged care facilities is covered by the industry's award rather than the lower-paying hospitality award.
The FWC's minimum wage panel has given Prime Minister Anthony Albanese until Friday to lodge a submission to this year's annual wage review, but has asked him to keep it to 10 pages.
Universities should tap into renewed, pandemic-fuelled interest in technology's effects on job satisfaction and productivity by offering related courses to employers and unions, say an international trio of leading HR and workplace academics.
New prime minister Anthony Albanese is hinting that his government won't seek to confine its proposed pay increase to those on the minimum wage, in his letter seeking leave to lodge a late submission to the FWC's annual wage review.
To address Indigenous Australians' under-representation in the workforce, employers need to create employment targets and inclusive leave policies and recognise workers' diverse needs, according to a new report.
In what a legal aid lawyer calls a "huge" win for vulnerable workers chasing underpayments through the small claims jurisdiction, a judge has today ruled that a court can make compensation orders against directors of deregistered companies.
An unregistered union accusing major employers of refusing to include it in bargaining meetings with its rival warns it undermines collective bargaining, after the FWC this month supported Coles' decision not to include a paid bargaining agent in meetings with the UWU.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will today sign a letter to the FWC's minimum wage panel confirming that the new Labor Government intends to make a submission that it should award an increase that ensures workers don't go backwards as inflation hits 5.1%, while a major bank is predicting the panel will order a 4.5% rise, which would nevertheless be a "real wage cut".
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a multinational business's sales representative who ignored repeated warnings that she had crossed the chief executive's "line in the sand" over speeding in company cars.
