The Albanese Government should expand the existing positive duty to compel employers to prevent discrimination on the basis of s-xual orientation or gender identity, the Australian Human Rights Commission has recommended in a report released on the transgender day of visibility.
Employers have described today's FWC decision to abolish junior rates for 18 to 20-year-olds as "disappointing" and a "financial blow", as the tribunal conceded the likelihood of a negative effect on employment of workers as businesses adjust to increased labour costs.
A jury has found a subsidiary of ASX-listed Mastermyne Group guilty of industrial manslaughter over the death of a mineworker at a Bowen Basin coal mine, in the first successful prosecution since the Queensland Government extended the laws to resources workplaces in 2020.
In a decision with potentially broad implications for NSW public sector workforce models, the State's Industrial Court has declared a long-serving Correctional Services casual a continuing employee after rejecting arguments his contractual label is decisive.
Legislation to respond to the transport fuel price crisis by enabling the FWC to fast-track road transport contractual chain order applications to lift rates for truck drivers has passed federal parliament late today.
The scope of "same-job, same-pay" orders should replicate the host deal's, according to an employment and IR barrister who is urging the Albanese Government to plug a "leaking bucket", following a full court finding that the FWC should have confined its orders to a more limited cohort of on-hire workers at a Hunter Valley coal mine.
The FWC has authorised supported bargaining for cleaners at Victorian public schools, but the UWU says that the "ultimate fix" would be for the education department to directly employ them.
The Net Zero Economy Authority is seeking the second FWC just transition determination, to support workers through the closure of Australia's largest power station, while it is also consulting on closures in Western Australia.
