The Albanese Government has created a new Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, reversing the Morrison Government's 2019 decision to shift IR into the Attorney-General's Department.
The FWC in upholding the sacking of an unvaccinated KFC worker has found it "regrettable" HR sent auto-generated letters that led her to believe she was dismissed for abandoning her job.
The Albanese Government will ask the FWC's minimum wage panel to deliver the country's lowest-paid workers a raise that "reflects" the current inflation rate of 5.1%.
In his first announcement as federal IR minister, Tony Burke has put closing the gender pay gap at the forefront of his agenda, while encouraging workers to join their unions.
Amazon has settled a Federal Court action alleging it discriminated against a Sydney warehouse worker by withdrawing an offer of permanent employment once she mentioned she was pregnant.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed today that Tony Burke will serve as his Employment and Workplace Relations Minister, after holding the role for almost three years in Opposition.
A Federal Court judge has affirmed the primacy of federal over state laws in determining that NSW workers compensation caps did not shackle the amounts he could award to a long-serving manager whose life was "effectively destroyed" by a new chief executive.
A FWC full bench has overturned the reinstatement of a ANU professor sacked for his "s-xually intimate" interactions with a student while skinny-dipping, while underlining that its ruling had nothing to do with being "wowserish".
Spain's plan to introduce publicly-funded paid menstrual leave of up to five days a month for workers who have painful and disabling periods could serve as a "benchmark" for Australian advocates for such policies, according to a leading women and work academic.
Labor has now won the 76 seats it needs to pass IR legislation in the lower house, but will still have to secure the support of the Greens and one more senator in the upper house.
