S-x Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins is set to conduct an independent inquiry into Federal parliamentary workplaces, after a request from the Morrison Government.
A Federal Court judge has upbraided the principal of a specialist IR law firm, warning that legal practitioners making adverse action claims risk costs orders if they treat the certification of pleadings as a box-ticking exercise.
The FWC will this morning deal with objections to the fast-tracking of a joint union and Master Grocers Australia flexible hours award variation for part-time retail workers, and calls to join the bid with a "far more meritorious" ABI and NSW Business Chamber proposal.
The Fair Work Commission has declared a provisional view that it will agree to Telstra's request to terminate thousands of so-called "zombie" statutory individual agreements from the Work Choices era.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus says the Morrison Government should hold an independent inquiry into the allegations surrounding IR Minister and Attorney-General Christian Porter and withdraw the Omnibus IR legislation before the Senate.
Two franchisee directors of a Chatime bubble tea store have had most of their underpayment penalties suspended after a court accepted they acted on their franchisor's advice that they could pay age-based flat rates.
A Rio Tinto fly-in-fly-out supervisor sacked after his car swerved when he picked up his mobile phone is claiming in an adverse action case that he was really ousted over complaints about working arrangements while stuck in WA due to COVID-19 restrictions.
A FWC member made an error when she refused to admit medical evidence from a worker to "protect" him from breaching State workplace injury laws around unauthorised use of information, a full bench has ruled.
Senator Michaelia Cash will serve as acting IR Minister and Attorney-General while the incumbent Christian Porter takes a fortnight's leave after he today emphatically rejected historical rape allegations.
IR Minister Christian Porter today outed himself as the politician accused of raping of a 16-year-old girl in Sydney in 1988, declaring his innocence and that he intends to stay in the job.
