The Albanese Government is making it clear ahead of next week's economic reform roundtable it has no plans to act on a push by the ACTU and the Greens for a four-day work week, while the Productivity Commission says AI and robots could free-up aged care workers.
A full Federal Court has this afternoon thrown out a Retail and Fast Food Workers Union bid to overturn the FWC's approval of the Woolworths "rotten SDA sellout deal", which it claimed stripped workers' rights, froze wages and cut conditions.
Production and engineering workers at a Peabody underground coal mine near Wollongong have voted up a deal that secures a 15% pay rise over three years and retains job security measures, following strikes and an extended lockout.
A FWC full bench has ruled that Victoria's fire chief displayed an appearance of bias when he decided to suspend two workers for allegedly accessing private work emails at United Firefighters Union Victorian branch secretary Peter Marshall's request.
A father has failed to secure a production order in his pursuit of changes to the retail award to address a supermarket cutting his son's shifts in favour of younger workers, despite FWC warnings that award variation is not an appropriate avenue to address an individual workplace grievance.
In a significant finding on the integrity of the workplace umpire, a judge has ruled that a former union organiser and Labor MP rightly decided against recusing herself from hearing a same-job, same-pay application despite having described similar labour hire arrangements as a "rort" in Parliament.
The Greens might have missed out on a seat at next week's productivity roundtable, but it has won a consolation prize with the ACTU's plan to push for the adoption of its key four-day week policy at the forum.
Days after the High Court refused permission to appeal a key decision recognising standby duty as paid work, a FWC full bench has weighed its implications for a Qantas subsidiary's long-awaited intractable bargaining workplace determination.
In its latest clean-up of superannuation in awards, the FWC has observed that after more than a decade it still does not have the required members to constitute an expert panel to keep tabs on default funds terms.
