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.
The HSU is seeking in a Federal Court action to establish that outsourced kitchen and food services work performed in aged care facilities is covered by the industry's award rather than the lower-paying hospitality award.
The FWC's minimum wage panel has given Prime Minister Anthony Albanese until Friday to lodge a submission to this year's annual wage review, but has asked him to keep it to 10 pages.
Universities should tap into renewed, pandemic-fuelled interest in technology's effects on job satisfaction and productivity by offering related courses to employers and unions, say an international trio of leading HR and workplace academics.
New prime minister Anthony Albanese is hinting that his government won't seek to confine its proposed pay increase to those on the minimum wage, in his letter seeking leave to lodge a late submission to the FWC's annual wage review.
