The Ai Group has criticised an ACT Government proposal to extend its portable long service leave scheme as "misconceived', but the UWU says it is a welcome expansion to cover "highly-mobile" workers.
The ACTU will push for the Albanese Government's Jobs and Skills Summit next week to embrace industry-based and multi-employer negotiations, as part of an overhaul of a collective bargaining system that is failing to deliver a fair share to workers.
Unions and Shell Australia have signed off on an in-principle agreement after a bitter campaign that resulted in the world's largest floating LNG platform being shuttered last month amid continuing protected strike action.
A leading employment law and IR academic says the Albanese Government needs to decide how it will go about "rebalancing" the FWC before it settles on a successor to President Iain Ross, suggesting it has three options.
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission has in winning broad-ranging suppression orders "strongly" rejected the claim by a former IT officer suing it over an alleged "sham" redundancy that such measures were pointless given potential witnesses could be readily identified through their LinkedIn profiles.
The CFMMEU's manufacturing division says it will soon apply to leave the mega-union, opening the way for another lengthy struggle with the dominant construction division and its smaller ally, the MUA.
The leaders of the largest and most influential unions are heading to Canberra next week to participate in the Albanese Government's Jobs and Skills Summit.
The FWC has speculated that a government business enterprise reviewing a stood-down employee's performance deliberately dragged its feet in the hope he would resign.
The peak NSW union body is calling ahead of next week's jobs summit for the Albanese Government to adopt bargaining fees, outlaw unpaid overtime for workers earning less than $162,000 and simplify migration rules by imposing a single requirement to pay overseas workers a 30% premium.
Unions are accusing Apple of trying to ram through a deal that could have employees working up to 60 hours a week without overtime, with the ASU and the SDA calling for more time to consult and RAFFWU seeking 5% a year and to claw back alleged underpayments.
