The Albanese Government will for the third year in a row tell the FWC it wants to ensure low-paid workers' wages don't go backwards in the annual wage review, while it will also urge it to overlook tax cuts and cost-of-living relief.
A Newcastle-based church unfairly summarily dismissed a worker when it took the view that no-one vaccinated against COVID-19 could work for it because it viewed the inoculation as "the world's largest ever untested medical experiment", and retrospectively applied the policy to the worker without warning.
The MEU has lodged the second application to test the Closing Loopholes "same job, same pay" changes, this time aiming to lift the pay of Programmed labour hire workers at a NSW coal mine by $30,000 to $40,000, with many more claims planned.
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.
