A parliamentary inquiry has recommended the Albanese Government consider amending the Fair Work Act's right to request flexible work to ensure menopausal women can access it, while it also wants reproductive leave added to the NES and awards.
The Health Services Union has won 12 days paid reproductive leave in a deal for about 1600 disability service workers, in a "watershed" development it says could be expanded nationwide, as it bargains to entrench the entitlement in five further agreements.
The MEU has today made an ACTU-backed application for a judicial review of the Fair Work Commission's decision to insert a delegates' rights clause in modern awards.
The Albanese Government is "not very far away" from appointing senior IR academics to review its Secure Jobs workplace reforms, while Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt revealed that the AFP is "advanced" in various investigations into the construction industry.
Parents' labour force participation would rise with free provision of childcare for low-paid workers, according to a Productivity Commission report released today.
FWC President Adam Hatcher is proposing to give peak bodies a chance to weigh in mid-next month on a major case to develop flexibility, consultation and dispute resolution model agreement terms, according to a draft timetable out for feedback by Monday.
A Federal Court judge has dealt a blow to three workers' pursuit of an embassy over alleged sham contracts, closely examining the "dignity, immunities and privileges of foreign States under Australian law" before overturning a lower court's rejection of attempts to bin the case.
CFMEU construction division administrator Mark Irving KC has accepted all of investigator Geoffrey Watson SC's recommendations to reform the union and has asked him to continue his probe, using the administration's coercive powers to overcome the limits identified in his interim report.
The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils' chief executive has today won a pause on his sacking over allegations he s-xually harassed a new assistant, after the Federal Court accepted there is a "strong inference" it rushed to oust him hours before he would become eligible to mount an unfair dismissal case.
