Annual wage increases in private sector agreements dropped below 4% in the first quarter of the year and rises in public sector plunged by almost two percentage points, as bargaining coverage hit a new record, according to new DEWR data.
The FWC will arbitrate a dispute between a research institute and two former employees seeking redundancy payments, after they overcame an objection that only the NTEU is entitled to file the application following the expiry of their "maximum terms".
Eminent academic Roy Green will lead a review of the Albanese Government's just transition legislation to determine whether it is meeting "Parliament's intent to build a world-leading and consistent approach to worker support in the energy transition", the Net Zero Economy Authority said today.
The ACTU has renewed its call to remove or curb employers' ability to lock out their workforces, after a multinational mining company extended to almost three weeks its freeze on mineworkers returning to the job at an Illawarra coal pit.
The Federal Court has ousted HSU secretary Diana Asmar and has put her Victorian No 1 branch wholly in the hands of administrator Charlie Donnelly until a fresh leadership team is elected, as early as the middle of next year.
Assistant productivity minister Andrew Leigh says Australians have used about a quarter of the post-1980 productivity dividend to "work less", as he revisited a 1930 John Maynard Keynes prediction that people in 2030 "would inherit a world shaped by rising productivity and the promise of abundance".
The Albanese Government should introduce civil penalties for breaches of the positive duty to eliminate s-xual harassment, while an Irish Bill could provide a model for restricting the use of non-disclosure agreements, the Human Rights Commission says in a new report.
The FWC has listed the ANMF's nurses and midwives work value case for a conference early next month as the union and employers attempt to resolve outstanding issues, such as any phase-in arrangements, without the need for a full contested hearing.
The ABC must pay $70,000 compensation for non-economic loss to presenter Antoinette Lattouf for terminating her employment for reasons including that she held a political opinion opposing the Israeli military campaign in Gaza, after a Federal Court ruling this morning.
