Sydney Water has failed to quash a FWC finding that clears the way for a former employee whose image was used in a suggestive OHS poster to pursue more than $1 million in damages on the basis its botched response forced her to resign.
The RBA is predicting that the wage price index will increase from the current 2.4% annually to 3% by the end of year, but it will be growing at half the forecast year-end headline inflation rate of 6% and remain a long way behind the expected 4.75% rise in underlying inflation.
ACTU leader Sally McManus has asked Prime Minister Scott Morrison to consider removing FWC expert panel member Mark Wooden from the minimum wage review, after his "extraordinary and highly inappropriate intervention" by "insert[ing] himself into the political debate" with media comments on low wage growth.
The FWC has cleared the way for a worker accused of "disruptive menace" and assaulting the chief executive to pursue a general protections claim against his former employer, holding it could not delegate to police the task of telling him he had been sacked.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has promised today that if Labor wins the May 21 federal election, he will commission a labour market white paper to foster "secure work and higher wages" and convene an employment summit to boost job security and bolster the ailing bargaining system.
NSW Greens have expressed disappointment that Labor MPs have refused to recommend nurse to patient ratios in a Parliamentary regional health inquiry despite previously pursuing it as an election policy, while the NSWNMA says its job is to convince the ALP it is achievable.
The NTEU has urged its members to change passwords for their credit cards and online bank accounts after a ransomware attack on the union on Tuesday evening.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a risk and compliance manager who refused to meet a vaccination deadline, dismissing her request for a risk assessment as irrelevant in the context of approved COVID-19 vaccines and public health orders.
Victoria's Andrews Labor government has committed almost $250 million to fund a two-year Australian-first pilot scheme giving paid sick leave to casual and contract workers in selected industries, while not revealing how it will be funded in the longer-term.
