A senior FWC member has told an IR conference that problems associated with a "radical disjunct" between the common law and award definitions of casuals will "snowball" if not resolved, while the cause of stunted wage growth in the face of strong labour market conditions lies beyond orthodox thinking.
The FWC has slammed a childcare centre for a "hopelessly flawed investigation" that led to a teacher being sacked over false allegations she mistreated a child, suggesting the owner should claim his money back for poor legal advice.
Future union membership numbers will depend on how effectively unions organise without being able to rely on the political system delivering changes to workplace laws, according to an expert on employment relations.
Barrister Wood to lead Folau case; CFMMEU trespass charges thrown out; Child-unfriendly car helps manager stay under income threshold; FWO recovers $580K for 1000 short-changed workers.
Re-elected Prime Minister Scott Morrison has stressed the importance of law enforcement in adding IR to the responsibilities of Attorney-General Christian Porter in his new ministry announced yesterday.
The Federal Court has denied the AWU an injunction blocking the dismissal of its sole OHS representative at a pyrotechnic manufacturing facility for his alleged breach of safety protocols.
Unions today commissioned a post-mortem of their unproductive election campaign after the ACTU leadership of secretary Sally McManus and president Michele O'Neil called an urgent meeting of union secretaries in Melbourne to discuss the wash-up of Labor's shock defeat.
A focus on complaints by "affluent white women in elite professions", persistent workplace structures and the legal landscape might be limiting the #MeToo movement's ability to achieve broader change, but "power" is increasingly paying attention, an academic told an IR conference today.
