Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese today led apologies for the "unacceptable history" of workplace bullying, s-xual harassment and s-xual assault in Commonwealth parliamentary workplaces.
IR scholarship has succeeded in shifting its focus to contemporary workplace issues, but IR policy has not made the same transition and is stuck in an "outdated paradigm" that is "fixated" on solving problems - such as "excessive" union power - that have "diminished or no longer exist", a leading academic will tell a conference tomorrow.
The Star Entertainment Group has revealed about $13 million in underpayments to more than two thousand salaried employees over six years, after it discovered that annual salaries failed to properly compensate them for overtime they worked and penalty rates they missed out on.
Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has revealed that Single Touch Payroll data from last year shows that workers who switched jobs won pay rises of 8% to 10% - far higher than increases delivered under enterprise agreements and awards - while they also helped to boost productivity.
Victoria's Andrews Labor Government will employ 2000 additional public school teachers, reduce face-to-face teaching hours and boost pay by 2% a year under a four-year deal struck with the AEU, but in NSW unions are holding out for a 10% to 15% raise.
IR and labour law experts have queried the lawfulness of an agreement between Uber Canada and a big private sector union, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Canada.
Patrick Terminals says the four-year in-principle agreement it has struck with the MUA removes "restrictive recruitment conditions", while delivering "other much-needed flexibilities" for its four container terminals, while the MUA says it has received "assurances" on job security and has won pay rises of 2.5% or CPI, whichever is greater.
Government senators on the inquiry into the religious discrimination bills have recommended it pass with minor amendments, and say it should be the role of future governments to "monitor the impacts" of contentious provisions allowing "statements of belief" and overriding state-based protections against discrimination in employment by faith-based bodies.
