A court has criticised a vaping company for its "contemptuous disregard for workplace laws" and ordered it to pay more than $37,000 in penalties for exploiting a temporary visa worker by requiring him to pay back a a portion of his salary under a "cashback" arrangement.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has addressed union leaders on the recent changes to IR laws, stressing their longer-term impacts and the importance of strengthened union delegates' rights.
Federal Police officers might impose protected bans on accompanying low-risk politicians at airports and attending low-security MPs' and senators' functions, if a protected action ballot that closes early next month wins approval.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has told a paid IR agent it will have to clear a full bench hurdle before winning permission to appear in future cases before the tribunal, after it ignored directions to repay a settlement sum that never found its way to a client.
The CPSU says its membership grew by 10% during APS-wide bargaining that is producing strong votes in favour of federal agencies' deals, while an academic says a "very difficult" task awaits any future government that seeks to wind it back.
The FWC no longer plans to deal with workers' right to disconnect during consultations in the work and care arm of its modern awards review, while it has tweaked its timetable and is inviting input by tomorrow afternoon on a survey that includes questions about working from home.
The FSU is backing the requests from 20 CBA workers seeking to extend the life of their zombie AWAs in the wake of a recent full bench finding that one of their colleagues would lose $17,000 in long service leave pay if she reverted to the bank's 2020 agreement.
The ABS has credited a rise in enterprise agreements as helping to take annual private sector rates of pay past inflation for the first time in nearly three years.
The TWU has offered Qantas a rare endorsement after the airline today announced former Toll chair and Asciano chief executive John Mullen as its next chair, describing the appointment as offering a "glimmer of hope" that the employer-employee relationship could be reset at the national carrier.
DEWR has told a Senate committee it will soon start consulting on a 2022 Labor election pledge to establish a scheme for portable employee entitlements for those in insecure work.