Courts will be able to issue protection orders banning those who subject "frontline" federal public servants to violence and aggression from further access to their workplaces for up to two years, under newly-introduced Albanese Government legislation.
A Senate inquiry into AI has recommended updating workplace OHS frameworks to impose a positive duty on employers to minimise the risk of AI and mandating consultation, while a second parliamentary probe is considering whether the government should introduce protections from excessive workplace surveillance.
A leading IR barrister says few employers are equipped to deal with the "huge sleeper issue" posed by the rise of working from home, as it becomes increasingly difficult to order employees to return, but he does not believe more legislation is the answer.
The Albanese Government's legislation to link its funding for the 15% work value pay rise for early childhood educators to limits on childcare operator fee increases, to ensure the funding is reflected in workers' wages, has passed parliament.
A FWC full bench has upheld a deputy president's decision to throw out the unfair dismissal claims of two UWU organisers who had adverse action cases on foot at the time they filed, flouting Fair Work Act provisions preventing multiple applications of a certain type.
A Slater and Gordon HR chief sacked for allegedly misleading its board about underpaid leave entitlements of more than $300,000 is accusing it in a Federal Court adverse action case of retaliating in response to "whistleblower" disclosures.
Qantas unlicensed aircraft mechanical engineers are preparing to ramp up their campaign of protected action in the lead-up to the peak Christmas travel period, with new ballots set to close on December 6.
The SDA has won same-job, same-pay orders that will lift pay by $8 to $12 an hour for close to 200 labour hire workers placed at a Queensland Kmart warehouse, while it has also, in league with the UWU, secured similar orders that will raise wages for on-hire workers at Metcash by up to $12,600 a year.
More than 1000 nurses and midwives from 17 NSW-based Ramsay Health Care private hospitals are stopping work today and rallying outside the healthcare giant's annual general meeting in Sydney to demand a 20% pay rise over three years.
A presidential member placed too much emphasis on two workers' failure to chase up their unfair dismissal applications, a FWC full bench has ruled, finding the representative's miscalculation of the due date responsible for the whole delay.
