A new Queensland Council of Unions gender equity pilot program aims to enact cultural change in some of Australia's most segregated industries by tailoring its approach to the challenges of each workplace.
The MEU says a full Federal Court's quashing today of FWC decisions inserting a delegates' rights term into modern awards emphatically confirms that the Closing Loopholes laws allow workplace delegates to represent workers on site regardless of labour hire or employment arrangements.
A type-1 diabetic's late general protections application alleging disability discrimination can proceed after his ASX-listed labour hire employer conceded the employment relationship had "dwindled and ceased" due to his work restrictions.
The Albanese Government has announced that DEWR deputy secretary Tania Rishniw will serve as the department's acting secretary when secretary Natalie James' departs next month, eighteen months before her term expires.
Woolworths has been hit with another underpayments class action, at the same time it is defending a shareholder class action accusing it of breaching disclosure rules by failing to keep the market informed about the extent to which it has shortchanged staff.
In a significant decision on diplomatic immunity, a full Federal Court has tossed out an embassy's claim that it enjoys protection from unfair dismissal proceedings, confirming in the process that the FWC has standing as a "court" under the relevant legislation.
The WA IRC has thrown out a TWU bid to represent waste collectors at a Perth council after finding it would breach a demarcation agreement and ramp-up union rivalry, while noting it has been taking members' dues for nearly three years without telling them it could not represent them.
Northern Territory public servants have accepted the Finocchiaro Government's marginally above-cap wage offer, which it says is a "positive outcome", but the tight result should be a "wake-up call for the government" according to the CPSU.
The scheme to temporarily bring low-skilled Pacific Island workers to Australia to build skills and send funds back to their families is being subverted, according to a new report that claims highly-trained workers are performing low-skilled roles, while hollowing out the ranks of skilled workers in their home countries.
