After initially boosting First Nations employment largely in lower-level roles, an APS leadership program has doubled their number in senior executive service positions over the last two years, the latest state of the public service report has revealed, which also spells out the continuing prevalence of working from home.
The author of a book tracing 150 years of campaigning for a shorter Australian working week says it offers crucial lessons for current efforts to win a four-day work week, cut unpaid overtime, and properly account for domestic labour, while AMWU national secretary Steve Murphy considers it part of a "just transition".
Already facing a $1 billion-plus wage-theft bill, Woolworths has now been hit with a shareholder class action claiming it breached continuous disclosure rules by failing to keep the market informed about the extent of staff underpayments and published financial records from 2010 to 2025 that "overstated [its] financial results".
Men are using reproductive leave almost as much as women, a Queensland Council of Unions survey of State public sector workers has revealed, one year after the introduction of the entitlement.
Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth has engaged a former long-serving FWC member to review the Albanese Government's Closing Loopholes reforms.
The FWC has rejected a UWU costs claim against a staff union representing organisers it sacked after their involvement in pay negotiations on behalf of Queensland public school teacher aides and cleaners, just as the Crisafulli Government says it has reached a "landmark" in-principle deal covering the workers.
In an "industry-first", a newly-approved union agreement covering editorial employees at news publications including Crikey and The Mandarin explicitly prohibits AI from replacing human employees and requires all output to have human oversight.
A legal practice has failed to block another firm from representing a former employee, after it argued that a barrister who once worked for both of them might have shared crucial insights on his way through to the Bar.
Victoria's Allan Government is supporting a Silver Review recommendation that public sector agencies ensure employees adhere to the expectation that they work a minimum of three days in the office, with most currently attending for only two days.
The FWC has warned the CFMEU against a "burger with the lot" approach to pressing its objections to a proposed construction industry deal, after rejecting an employer's complaints that the union had no involvement in bargaining and has no members covered.
