The Commonwealth Bank must give an undertaking to deliver unconditional pay rises for all workers covered by a new agreement to secure the FWC's approval, after its HR chief inaccurately stated while selling the deal they would be "guaranteed".
The High Court has this morning refused the ABCC special leave to challenge a full Federal Court's reversal of penalties imposed on two CFMMEU officials for leading a walk-out from a building site that had no separate toilet for a female worker, while it also denied special leave for a case about class action common fund orders.
An FWC full bench, in overturning a finding that the engineers, scientists and IT professionals award does not apply to an LNG consultant, has suggested reviewing its coverage provisions after "excessive litigation" to establish whether it covers unfair dismissal applicants.
The ACTU has labelled the Morrison Government's legislation arising from the Respect@Work report a "missed opportunity" to deal with sexual harassment and violence at work.
The Fair Work Commission will be able to make a "stop sexual harassment order" after a single incident under legislation introduced today to implement some of the recommendations from Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins' Respect@Work report.
The Morrison Government has today introduced legislation into the Senate that amends the Fair Work Act and Sex Discrimination Act to respond to Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins' landmark Respect@Work report, which includes two days paid compassionate leave for workers who suffer miscarriages.
A Headspace counselling service has hit back at a clinician's Federal Circuit Court claims that it put them on administrative duties and sacked them for exercising their rights after they accused a colleague of botching a client's personal pronouns.
Banking giant ANZ has warned the FSU of possible legal action over a campaign that accuses the company of using a legal "loophole" to offset the 0.5 percentage points increase in employer superannuation contribution from July 1 by absorbing it into some employees' salaries.
The CFMMEU's mining and energy division has begun a challenge to new "maximum term" contracts at Anglo American's Grosvenor coal mine in Queensland, after a safety inquiry highlighted the mine's heavily reliance on labour hire and contract workers.
