Victoria's Andrews Government is working with the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity on trials of workplace surveillance testing for COVID-19 that rely on saliva samples rather than the more intrusive nasal swabs.
Forty-eight former Macquarie Bank wealth advisors have been awarded compensation totalling more than $1.3 million despite a judge describing as "rapacious" their claims about underpayment of various leave entitlements.
The Victorian Supreme Court has dismissed an application to strike out legal action by CFMMEU construction and general division Victorian branch secretary John Setka, who is seeking damages from two Boral executives over abandoned blackmail charges.
Keane defends High Court's approach to worker's freedom of expression; BHP in-house labour hire arm faces court over Xmas shifts; Gig work the new "Hungry Mile"; and Further objection to proposed enterprise union.
The FWC has used the further extension of COVID-19-related flexibilities in the clerks award to advance its campaign for enduring changes in working-from-home arrangements, calling on employers and unions to report back on possible variations to address the issue by early next month.
The Federal Government is forecasting in its Budget that price inflation will substantially outpace wages in the current financial year, before level-pegging in 2021-22.
The Morrison Government will modestly increase funding to the Fair Work Commission over the next two years as part of its response to COVID-19, which is expected to drive up employer insolvencies and increase demand for the Fair Entitlements Guarantee scheme.
Former HSU national secretary Kathy Jackson faces a pre-sentencing hearing on November 17 after this week pleading guilty in the Victorian County Court to two charges of obtaining a financial advantage of deception.
Single Bill to take forward coronavirus IR changes, says Porter; Qantas not required to maintain status quo; Patrick wins interim anti-industrial action order; and PM pays tribute to John Fahey, Susan Ryan.
The FWC has renewed an entry permit to an AMWU organiser who went from serial lawbreaker to a "well-meaning but mistaken contravener", before his recent six-year track record as a "well-trained clean skin".
