The FWC has granted separate extensions of time to two workers challenging their dismissals, after attaching significant weight to the deaths of close family members.
Mining unions are seeking a $10,000 retention bonus every year for BHP workers on top of annual increases of at least 5% and "fair pay equity" at its Pilbara iron ore operations, while the Coalition continues to draw pre-election battle lines in the sector.
Queensland's Miles Government has secured the passage of legislation to introduce a broad positive duty to eliminate not only sexual harassment and harassment on the basis of s-x, but discrimination and "other objectionable conduct" as far as possible.
The Albanese Government has today introduced legislation to tie its funding for the 15% work value pay rise for early childhood educators to limits on childcare operator fee increases, to ensure the funding is passed on to workers.
The FWC has extended time by seven hours for a care worker to lodge her unfair dismissal claim after a loose power cord stymied a paid agent's "imprudent and careless" late night filing efforts.
Some 104 construction industry agreements sidelined for greater scrutiny in the wake of corruption allegations in the CFMEU's construction and general division are now unlikely to be further delayed, after the Commission and union administrator Mark Irving KC established an "open and cooperative dialogue".
Employer-subsidised transport encourages working in the office in Paris, contributing to its attendance levels rising above Sydney, London and New York, according to a new report.
Unions are calling on Tasmania's Rockliff Liberal Government to boost its investment in public sector pay, as a report reveals public servants in the State are earning nearly $5700 less than their mainland counterparts and are worse off than 13 years ago.
NSW nurses and midwives have defied a tribunal's anti-strike orders, telling its members the State Government has left them with "no choice but to fight".
