Some retail and pharmacy workers will be more than $4,000 worse off per year when the latest reduction in penalty rates takes effect today, according to new analysis by the Parliamentary Library.
Asking why the nation has a "blue" COVID-19 recovery plan for a "pink recession", the SDA has told a Senate inquiry that focusing investment in female-dominated industries will create more jobs and more effectively boost the economy.
The CFMMEU construction and general division's NSW branch has slapped a green ban on historic buildings in Parramatta that are set to be demolished under controversial plans to shift the Powerhouse Museum from inner-city Ultimo.
The FWC has upheld a recruitment company's dismissal of a consultant who refused, as the coronavirus pandemic escalated in early March, to complete a survey about his recent history of travel to destinations with moderate to high COVID-19 risks.
The ailing enterprise bargaining system could be revived by replacing the Better Off Overall Test with a No-Disadvantage Test similar to that in the Keating Government's IR reforms, according to a former senior member of the Fair Work Commission.
A-G's department investigating new Heydon allegations; ROC concludes HSU investigation; Full court begins hearing ROC appeal against AWU ruling; and Extend JobKeeper, says Grattan.
The FWC has told the ACTU and employers to confer on continuing COVID-19 measures in the clerical, fast food, retail, health industry and other awards ahead of a hearing tomorrow, while it is proposing to grant unopposed extensions to hospitality and vehicle awards.
A worker has been granted a 13-day extension for filing an unfair dismissal application after the FWC accepted his sacking during the coronavirus pandemic left him in "a bad way".
The construction watchdog has won a declaration that a labour hire company discriminated against a 70-year-old grader operator when it declined to engage him for placement with a Pilbara client.
