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Deal averts airport strife; Ex-ALP MP to be Tassie IR Minister; Class action against super fund; and Former AWU secretary to lead Labor think tank.

The ACTU has formed a reproductive leave working group and drafted a policy that it will consider taking to the National Congress in June before launching a national campaign, but if the peak body chooses not to pursue the policy, the Queensland Council of Unions will take its paid reproductive health leave claim to Congress and expects widespread union support.

The avoidance of public criticism is a key feature of the Fair Workplace Ombudsman's "organisational psyche", according to a KPMG review.

The FWC has "condemned" an employer for characterising its bid to redeploy a worker to a "substantially different role" as fulfilling its redundancy obligations and has refused to reduce his severance payment.

Most universities now have cultural workload allowances for First Nations employees in their agreements that recognise the often unseen cultural education guidance they provide, with WA's Murdoch University the latest to adopt the entitlement, according to the NTEU.

In a decision warning that workplaces are "on notice" to meet far higher standards of behaviour, the FWC has thrown out the unfair dismissal claim of a veteran Alcoa worker held to have groped a female colleague.

The FWC has handed back MUA WA branch secretary Will Tracey's entry permit after more than a decade, finding he can "be assumed to have left behind his past propensity to engage in unlawful conduct".

A former employee of a company that restructured to offload severance obligations onto the FEG scheme has won a further boost to his payout after the AAT found a "grand chapel" deal that grandfathered more generous redundancy provisions served as the governing instrument for calculating entitlements for his first 15 years of employment.

The HR manager of a dumpling chain fined $4 million over a "deceitful and unscrupulous" payroll scam has been hit with a $100,000 penalty for her role, after the Federal Court heard a big sanction might force her to sell her share of her home.

In what stands as a forensic analysis of disciplinary process failings, a judge in a near-300-page judgment has found that a construction giant took adverse action against a senior manager when it sacked him for allegedly intimidating property owners while partying during the 2020 bushfire recovery effort.