The ANMF's Victorian branch has stepped up its campaign to curb casualisation and provide incentives for permanent working hours to build a "stable" health workforce, as it negotiates towards a new four-year enterprise agreement for about 60,000 public sector nurses and midwives.
The Law Reform Commission has recommended legal changes to substantially narrow the circumstances in which religious educational institutions can discriminate against their workers.
A court has stopped an employer withdrawing its sponsorship of a worker's visa and ordered it to reinstate him while he pursues his adverse action claim.
Employers are increasingly using non-compete clauses and their incidence will continue to accelerate if regulators fail to intervene, according to new research by Reserve Bank board member and former FWC president Iain Ross, who also wants them banned from future enterprise agreements.
A court has hit a former Indian High Commissioner with maximum fines for entrapping a worker in "powerless domestic servitude" in the guise of a diplomatic posting, paying her $9 daily to keep his palatial Canberra home 17.5 hours a day, seven days a week.
DEWR has published a suite of backgrounders spelling out the Albanese Government's Closing Loopholes 2 changes, including the right to disconnect, boosted delegates' rights, and the FWC's powers to set standards for "employee-like" workers.
The AMWU has failed to persuade a FWC bench to prolong the life of a near-20-year-old zombie deal while it attempts to capitalise on a majority support determination forcing long-time nemesis Cochlear to the bargaining table.
The FWC bench appointed to scrutinise a paid agent's future involvement in adverse action and unfair dismissal cases has asked a first tranche of 46 applicants to explain why they need to be represented by a firm recently described as having engaged in "unethical" practices.
