The NSW Parliament has passed legislation providing an industrial manslaughter offence punishable by jail terms of up to 25 years for individuals and fines for companies of up to $20 million - the largest in Australia - along with new laws extending the State's portable long service leave scheme.
The TWU has begun multi-employer bargaining with aviation ground-handling operators, as unions continue to make use of the Albanese Government's new IR laws.
The first of two AMIEU applications for same-job, same-pay orders to lift the wages of on-hire workers at Australia's largest family-owned, vertically integrated cattle and beef supply chain organisation looks likely to proceed without opposition from the labour supplier.
Misinterpretation of "curt or abrupt" messages between a remote manager and worker and "unhelpful" accusations of "frivolous and vexatious" complaints did not amount to bullying, but the manager might have needed support to better supervise his remote team, the FWC has found.
The Federal public sector has a far lower gender pay gap than the private sector, but women nevertheless earn $19,000 less per year than men, according to a new WGEA report.
The FWC has cancelled its first directions listing to deal with two FAAA "same-job, same-pay" claims on behalf of on-hire cabin crew at Qantas, after the union, the airline and the labour suppliers agreed in advance to a schedule.
Long-serving RTBU NSW branch leader Alex Claassens is set to become national secretary following the resignation of Mark Diamond, whom the organisation credits with "transforming" it and resisting Coalition attempts to thwart the union movement.
The bid by the MEU and AMWU for same-job, same-pay orders at BHP Coal's Bowen Basin mines is set to be the full bench test case for the key Closing Loopholes provisions, after the company and its OS labour hire subsidiaries made it clear today in a FWC hearing that they will argue they are excluded because they are service contractors rather than labour suppliers.
The FWC has refused a six-day extension for a BCF store manager to challenge her sacking, but indicated that it might have granted it if a doctor who wrote a letter outlining her mental health issues had been called to give evidence.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has expressed concern about possible confusion arising from the inclusion in all awards of the new right to disconnect outside of working hours, when some awards "specifically contemplate" out-of-hours contact.
