Four-day working week could help ACTPS attract top talent; ALLA webinar explores implications of High Court's Pattinson ruling; ACTU TVC highlights collective power on wages; Downer for workers as FWC accepts 275% pay rise a mistake; and TWU pushes for state-based standards-setting bodies.
The Andrews Government has responded to IR Victoria's review of child employment legislation by introducing amendments to broaden the definition of employment, simplify the licensing system and extend its coverage to not-for-profit organisations.
Many workers would forgo a pay rise of up to 10% to secure more say in where and when they work, according to a study that says the Fair Work Act is failing to keep up with flexible practices, while other research says WFH employees save an average of $10,000 a year.
An experienced HR manager, who also played a central role in his employer's doomed attempt to establish an enterprise union, failed to do any of the "basic things" expected of his profession when he seized on the first opportunity to sack a worker threatening to take bullying and harassment claims to "Fair Work", a court has found.
The TWU is decrying the Flying Kangaroo's decision to seek special leave from the High Court to challenge the full Federal Court ruling that it took unlawful adverse action when it contracted-out its ground handling functions to prevent workers from exercising their workplace rights to bargain and engage in industrial action, while rival Virgin Australia has told its workforce that it will end its wage freeze.
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.
