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BCA draws 10-year battle lines over IR system

The BCA has called for a root-and-branch overhaul of the country's IR system that would significantly sideline the FWC in agreement-making, downgrade awards in favour of the NES and redirect the FWO's energies towards helping employers ensure their payrolls are compliant.

ALP ponders employer role in AI job threat

Employers that restructure to take advantage of artificial intelligence would be "responsible" for reskilling their workforces to avoid unnecessary redundancies, under a policy to be considered by this week's ALP national conference.

"Same job, same pay" details revealed

The Albanese Government has outlined for the first time the details of how it might implement its "same job, same pay" proposal that it framed to ensure labour hire arrangements are not used to undercut employees' pay and conditions.

Paper spells out FWC powers for "employee-like" work

Submissions are due next month on Albanese Government proposals to empower the FWC to set minimum standards and pay rates for those in "employee-like" forms of work, including in the gig economy, and to tackle disputes over contract terms and termination.


Labor schedules IR Bill, with pay gap as first big reveal

The Albanese Government has confirmed its Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill to be into introduced into Parliament next Thursday will include measures to close the gender pay gap, but IR academic Shae McCrystal says any legislation must also provide a right to strike or compulsory arbitration for workers engaging in multi-employer bargaining.

NSW Labor makes gig economy protections an election issue

As the Albanese Government continues talks on its planned introduction of national IR standards for the gig economy, NSW Labor is promising to deliver minimum rates, portable entitlements and workers compensation for platform workers in the State if it takes power next year.

Labor MP's "anger" at precarious work

A new Labor MP has described her personal experience of the "ache of insecure work" in the tertiary education sector to reinforce why it has become one of the primary targets in the Albanese Government's legislative agenda.