The Senate inquiry into the Albanese Government's Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates legislation is seeking submissions this week, ahead of a hearing next week.
Greens finance and workplace relations spokesperson Barbara Pocock says the party would "value" a seat at the Albanese Government's economic reform roundtable, where it would push for a four-day work week and an easier path for parents returning to employment, while the ACTU and the Productivity Commission have revealed more of their roundtable agendas.
The FWC has awarded indemnity costs against an IT company for its vexatious defence of an unfair dismissal claim that included a HR consultant's "astonishing" approach to the worker's new employer to establish his earnings.
A union delegate's "at best negligent and at worst foolhardy" practice of filling in his timesheets inaccurately did not warrant his summary dismissal, because his employer failed to establish that he deliberately set out to deceive it, the FWC has found.
Extra protections are a step closer for federal public servants, contractors and volunteers after the Albanese Government re-introduced legislation carrying possible jail time for those breaching stay-away orders after threatening violence.
A worker is entitled to use documents his employer produced during FWC general protections proceedings in his Federal Court case, because the Commission application "was an essential prerequisite" and the cases involve the same dispute.
As Origin Energy prepares to close Australia's largest coal-fired power station, it maintains there is no need for the federal "just transition" authority to mandate a jobs plan, while unions say the company's preparations fall short and intervention is needed.
A worker who insisted on toiling from his hospital bed almost immediately after bowel surgery has failed to overturn his dismissal for repeatedly flouting a direction to work within ordinary hours.
The Productivity Commission says labour productivity would rise by 0.4% with the introduction of cuts in company tax and rewards for investment, in the first of five interim reports to be released before next month's economic reform roundtable.
