Ahead of this week's jobs summit, unions are calling on the Albanese Government to take further action to close the 14.1% gender gap, by extending the reach of gender pay reporting, imposing "meaningful" targets and using federal purchasing power.
In a breakthrough for the ACTU ahead of this week's Jobs and Skills Summit, the Council of Small Business has agreed to support multi-employer agreements, while the two will also work together to achieve "new options" for workplace flexibility.
Unions and the Business Council have revived their plan for a more streamlined agreement approval process, with ACTU secretary Sally McManus suggesting the result could be a "really simple" system that might be better than that envisaged when the Hawke-Keating Government devised the bargaining regime in the early 1990s, while IR Minister Tony Burke said today he has shifted from his "hardline" opposition to changing the BOOT.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus is seeking submissions on whether the Albanese Government should lower the Modern Slavery Act's $100 million reporting threshold and "more explicitly" spell out the "due diligence" steps companies should take to identify and address modern slavery, as part of a review of the legislation.
The Albanese Government's consultations with gig companies will consider issues including the design of a process in the FWC to deliver fair minimum standards for "employee-like" workers and setting of those standards.
The AIPA says Qantas pilots have voted up, under threat of outsourcing, a newly-approved agreement variation that permits the flying kangaroo to apply existing fatigue rules for jets that fly six hours to its new generation Airbus A321XLRs that can be in the air for 11 hours.
Burke to start talks on gig “cancer” remedy today; Minister “interested” in ACTU industry bargaining suggestions; and Summit agenda’s key IR items feature on first morning.
A leading gender and IR expert says Australian policymakers should "pay attention" to a UK parliamentary inquiry's recommendation that the Johnson Government make menopause a protected characteristic under anti-discrimination laws and that employers implement more menopause-friendly policies.
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has today rejected an "untenable" 12% pay claim by the airline's licenced engineers, while he is meanwhile contending that the Albanese Government's signature IR policy of "same job, same pay" doesn't fit the aviation industry's business model.
The Federal Court has rejected an eminent cardiologist's bid to pause a probe into multiple misconduct allegations against him while highlighting a "complicating and competing factor"; that he is part of a group of cardiologists accused of arrogantly abusing their positions.
