The Victorian Government says a new "default" policy allowing tens of thousands of public servants to keep working remotely two days a week and requiring managers to present flexibility options for individual roles will be a boon for diversity and the economy.
The CFMMEU's mining and energy division has today applied to the FWC for approval to form an "independent union", in the first use of the Morrison Government's legislative changes making it easier for amalgamated unions to demerge.
The FWC has overlooked a union's "typographical error" in misnaming an employer opposed to its bid for a majority support determination, but not before castigating it for eating up the Commission's time by refusing to correct its mistake.
A casual sales assistant who secretly recorded disciplinary meetings leading up to her dismissal has on her fifth turn before the FWC been awarded $4500 compensation.
The ACTU in its submission to this year's minimum wage review will seek a 3.5% increase across all award rates, maintaining that pay growth is crucial for the post-pandemic economic recovery.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has ordered an investigation into whether any of his staff engaged in "backgrounding" against alleged rape victim and former government staffer Brittany Higgins or her "loved ones".
A mining company must reinstate a summarily sacked coal mine worker and reimburse six months' lost income after its hasty and "inadequate" HR disciplinary process "effectively turned a very strong case with a valid reason to one with little or no procedural fairness".
A new legal front has opened up in the CFMMEU's civil war, with the mining and energy division objecting to proposed changes to rules covering the union's national leadership structures and administration.
Paid pandemic leave for aged care workers looks set to end this month after a five-member FWC bench concluded that the "emergency circumstances" that impelled it to make award changes in the first place no longer exist.
A laundromat owner-manager who demanded s-x in return for a job and continually subjected a casual worker to unwanted touching has been ordered to pay her $50,000, including $5000 in aggravated damages, and cover her legal costs.
