Victoria's Allan Labor Government intends to repeal its wage theft offence and shut its gig worker advisory service, following the passage of the federal Closing Loopholes legislation that covers the same field, according to papers for the State's 2024-25 Budget.
The Australian Licenced Aircraft Engineers Association is at the pointy end of a bid for an intractable bargaining declaration to break an alleged "impasse" in negotiations on behalf of Qantas engineers in Tamworth, with the Flying Kangaroo and the union due to report back to the FWC this morning.
Employers have succeeded in varying an award clause a FWC full bench agrees could produce the "absurd" result of workers receiving five times the prescribed minimum rates.
The Queensland Government has de-criminalised s-x work, implementing Queensland Law Reform Commission recommendations with the aim of improving s-x workers' health, safety and workplace rights, and treating s-x work "as work rather than as a crime".
A FWC presidential member has taken exception to a HSU official's description of a clinical handover area as a meal room suitable for conducting meetings, dismissing it as a "self-serving label. . . border[ing] on dishonest".
The principal contractor on Australia's largest energy transmission project has been cleared to continue its pursuit of orders blocking the ETU's expansion into the renewable energy sector, as the union engages in alleged "guerrilla" tactics of disruption and delay.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a supervisor for changing the ratio of carers for an NDIS participant without permission and leaving a colleague in an unsafe situation.
Victoria's Allan Labor Government has ended an Australian-first pilot scheme providing paid sick leave to casual and contract workers as part of a 2024 budget that seeks to rein in growing State debt.
Employer and union speakers at the NSW IR Society's annual conference have voiced reservations about the Minns Government's "mutual gains bargaining" system, but State IR Minister Sophie Cotsis says she is "encouraged" by engagement levels so far.
