The Minns Government has offered a 3% interim pay increase and a night duty penalty rate increase to public sector nurses, ahead of arbitration in the NSW IRC next month, in which they are seeking a 35% pay rise to remedy gender undervaluation.
The MEU says Rio Tinto's workforce is stunned by the resource titan's decision to cut its three-month personal leave entitlement to 12 days for its West Australian iron-ore workers, which WA branch secretary Greg Busson says provides a "timely example" of why the company's workers need an agreement.
The ACTU is calling on the Albanese Government ahead of its economic reform roundtable to resuscitate a 1990s training levy on businesses to upskill workers to meet the demands of a "modern economy", including energy transition, diversification and AI.
The independent review of the federal just transition authority's largely untested Energy Industry Jobs Plans is seeking submissions by early next month on ways that it might provide better support for displaced workers.
Uber is arguing in a newly-lodged submission that the first substantive unfair contracts case to test new FWC powers should be thrown out, because the driver is attempting to use a potential loophole identified in a recent speech by the senior member hearing the case.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a nurse who "accidentally defibrillated" a patient, finding that she refused to take responsibility for the incident and rejecting claims her dismissal followed targeted bullying.
The Productivity Commission is urging parliamentarians to pause and potentially ditch moves to mandate guardrails for "high-risk AI", flying in the face of the recommendations of a government department and a union push for pre-agreed employment safeguards.
The FWC has rejected an aged care worker's unfair dismissal claim, finding that while a retirement village exercised a degree of control over her work it did not employ her, and she instead worked for digital platform Mable as an independent contractor.
The High Court has unanimously rejected mining giant Peabody's challenge to a finding that it failed to satisfy workplace laws governing redundancies when not properly considering alternative roles for 22 workers dismissed in 2020, ruling that the FWC was within its rights to delve into options like replacing already-engaged contractors.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a long-serving Woolworths warehouse worker who took almost 100 days off in the last year alone, finding the supermarket giant's leniency over many years did not preclude it from switching to a stricter approach.
