The global labour movement has hailed the first successful ballot to be represented by a union at Amazon's US operations, in a David and Goliath struggle over a warehouse in New York City which is expected to energise organising in the US and around the world.
RSPCA Queensland's former general manager and chief financial officer are suing it for allegedly subjecting them to sham redundancies in retaliation for "whistleblowing" corruption claims levelled at its chief executive, a HR manager and others.
Victoria's Andrews Labor Government is calling for an increase of at least the CPI - currently 3.5% - to the federal minimum wage and all modern award rates on the basis that consumer price inflation movements mean anything less would be a pay cut.
Attorney General and IR Minister Michaelia Cash has today appointed a senior Sydney IR and employment silk as a Federal Court judge, while she has refused to confirm whether she intends to make any FWC appointments ahead of the Government going into caretaker mode.
The plight of two strawberry pickers claiming they lost shifts in retaliation for giving evidence to a Senate inquiry into insecure employment highlights the vulnerabilities and exploitation faced by seasonal workers, according to a Labor/Greens-majority final report.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has promised that if Labor takes power at the election likely next month, it will make a submission to the FWC's aged care work value case full bench supporting a pay rise for the industry's workforce and undertaking to fund the arbitrated increase.
A four-member FWC full bench has given a pathology worker a second chance to contest his dismissal after admitting fresh evidence that his employer told the Anti-Discrimination NSW he had been sacked, having previously insisted in the Commission that he had "walked off the job".
A large employer organisation has called for the FWC to award minimum pay rises of 2.5% to 3% to help maintain living standards amid rising inflation, albeit with pay rises delayed for industries hardest hit by the pandemic.
Former IR Minister Christian Porter has farewelled Parliament in a speech in which he warned of the power of the "mob" and ruminated on the distorted nature of time at politic's epicentre.
In a clear effort to turn up the heat on IR reforms ahead of the federal election, the resource sector's peak employer body has urged all major parties to commit to introducing key parts of the Morrison Government's so-called Omnibus Bill that were hastily jettisoned last year.
