An academic will tell a major conference that employers must create safe environments for workers to speak out and report harassment and bullying, with recent victimisation findings and rising 'hostile environment' complaints putting positive duty obligations in the spotlight.
The FWC has castigated a union delegate for abusing its anti-bullying processes to "settle personal scores" with managers, branding it "completely inappropriate".
The AWU and ETU will kick off two weeks of strike action at Japanese oil and gas producer Inpex's onshore and offshore facilities, after they failed to reach agreement in FWC-facilitated talks.
The FWC has varied a NSWNMA staff deal after the majority voted to accept pay rises "not reliant" on record increases recently awarded to the State's nurses, with the tribunal also refusing an anonymous objector's bid for a public hearing.
New ACTU pitch for vehicle allowances; Delayed CPI move for expense-related allowances; Further reporting extension for WFH inquiry; and Labour law conference seeking papers.
A contentious random drug and alcohol testing regime can go ahead at Opal Packaging after a full Federal Court found both employer and union erred and in turn led the primary judge astray by focusing on who benefited from a requirement that the "status quo remain" in their dispute resolution procedure, while ignoring the rest of the clause.
The FWO is demonstrating an "appropriately cautious" approach to pursuing employers under new wage theft laws, the Closing Loopholes review has found, while a senator has separately told a parliamentary inquiry that the bar for prosecution might be too high.
The Federal Court has rejected an urgent union application to rule on the validity of requests to bargain with resources giant Fortescue for workers employed at a key iron ore mining hub in the Pilbara.
"Guardrails" on intractable bargaining declarations, lower evidence thresholds to access paid domestic violence leave and increasing the reach of same job, same pay orders are among 52 recommendations contained in the independent review of the Albanese Government's Closing Loopholes reforms.
