The ACTU is calling for standalone AI legislation and a dedicated regulator in its scathing response to the Productivity Commission's inquiry report, which it says offers "nothing for working people".
Victoria's Allan Labor Government has introduced a Bill to boost the ability of the State's Labour Hire Authority to prevent people with links to criminal organisations from operating labour hire businesses and to make it a criminal offence to retaliate against those who speak out.
HR and diversity practitioners say employers are using elite university attendance to filter out job applicants, but few utilise social class data to boost diversity and inclusion, according to Diversity Council Australia research that sets out pathways to recognise and remove the "class ceiling".
The NSW PSA has won a rule change to enable it to cover speed camera operators after it resolved an ASU objection via undertakings allowing either of them to ask the ACTU to help settle any demarcation disputes before heading to private arbitration.
More women are being appointed to managerial roles but their high resignation rates are undermining gender equality gains, while occupational segregation remains a key driver of inequality, according to a new WGEA report.
Once the FWC resolves Commission-initiated gender undervaluation "low-hanging fruit", its president expects unions and employer groups to make their own applications to deal with the remaining "more difficult areas".
A court has temporarily barred the NTEU from pursuing a FWC dispute application challenging a UTS decision to suspend enrolments into more than 100 courses, a month after SafeWork NSW lifted a prohibition notice pausing planned layoffs at the university.
The TWU is threatening strikes in the cash-in-transit industry in three states - with 99% of Victorian Armaguard workers already voting in favour - arguing its hand has been forced by a lack of progress in pay talks, eight months after the union's novel bid to rope-in the industry's major customers to secure pay rises.
The Albanese Government has modified its plan to cap concessional treatment for earnings from superannuation accounts and pushed back its start date by 12 months, in a response to criticisms, while the low-income super tax offset will be increased and apply up to a higher pay limit.
