The race discrimination commissioner is urging employers to curb "structural" or "embedded" racism that is stymieing inclusion, while reiterating a call for a positive duty to eliminate race bias in the workplace.
Almost a year after orders became available under Labor's landmark same-job, same-pay laws, a review of progress by Workplace Express indicates there have been about 50 decisions, with the MEU, UWU, AMIEU and SDA accounting for more than 70% of them.
Workers at Woodside's Pluto 2 LNG expansion in the Pilbara have overwhelmingly voted down head contractor Bechtel's proposed agreement, while Rio Tinto's Paraburdoo iron ore workers are set to receive a pay rise, announced shortly after unions kicked-off their majority support campaign.
Property giant Brookfield has settled a case with a senior executive retrenched ahead of her return from parental leave, after the company admitted it "fell short" but claimed it has improved its practices.
Victoria's new shadow IR minister, Richard Welch, has promised to bring "forward-looking leadership" to his portfolios, having once invented an early form of motion-tracking AI and built a factory in India from which he developed and exported products for more than a decade.
The workplace watchdog's power to hold franchisors to account for franchisees' underpayments has been bolstered, after a full Federal Court today threw out a challenge by the Bakers Delight chain.
The ACTU has slammed the Albanese Government's decision to dump its commitment to guaranteeing a weekly minimum of 30 paid hours for short-term workers on the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme.
The FWC has found a flexible working request invalid, because of its "tenuous" connection to the worker's caring responsibilities and the strain his absence would have imposed on other workers.
The general manager of a cosmetics services chain who held dual roles that in combination paid above the high-income threshold can pursue an unfair dismissal claim because it only relates to one of her positions, the FWC has held.
