Women appear less likely to lose jobs to automation but are in danger of losing power as men increasingly dominate managerial and IT roles, Australian academics have told an international IR conference.
The Federal Court has heard that "another agency" is now involved in the Federal Police investigation into media leaks about last year's raids on the AWU's offices.
A leading workplace academic has called on legislators to consider a UK parliamentary inquiry's recommendation to impose a legal obligation to protect workers from sexual harassment, with breaches resulting in "substantial financial penalties".
An FWC full bench has quashed a finding that BHP Coal should have kept paying or considered alternative duties for a mineworker while his driving licence was suspended, saying it would be tantamount to requiring an employer to excuse from duties but pay workers who turned up drunk.
A company director has been found personally liable for her company's adverse action when a visa worker was threatened with the sack for speaking to an FWO inspector.
Steel unions led by the AWU are pushing for Bluescope Port Kembla steelworkers to share in the good times after their three-year pay freeze helped the operation return to profit.
On the second of 16 days of FWC hearings into an IEU equal pay claim for early childhood teachers, the union is blaming low wages for a skill shortage in the overwhelmingly female-dominated sector, while the ACTU says the case will test whether the Fair Work Act's equal pay principle can deliver.
The UFU's Victorian branch has defended using debt collectors to pursue unpaid dues from some members, who reportedly objected to paying an annual levy to fund the union's litigation costs.
After chanting outside the FWC in Sydney "if you're underpaid because you're a woman clap your hands", the IEU has kicked off full bench hearings into its equal pay claim on behalf of early childhood teachers with a call to stop undervaluing their work.
