The Fair Work Commission is investigating whether it needs to change the basic rights for award workers just a week after the right to disconnect was made law.
The cyclone,anticipated to be a category 2 system,is expected to make landfall on Saturday.
More than 200 Network Aviation and QantasLink pilots in Western Australia walked off the job for six days last week,forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights.
Nostalgia is a powerful political force,but it should be distrusted – left and right – as a motivation for political change.
Senator Barbara Pocock retreated to her parliamentary office in Canberra for a critical meeting with fellow kingmaker David Pocock last week. The mood was tense.
Qantas’ WA pilots have just doubled the length of their strike. Find out who is affected,how the airlines and miners may cope and what the fight is about.
The right to disconnect has been law for less than a week,but the Albanese government is already facing a battle with its own staffers on work-life boundaries.
Qantas pilots flying workers to WA’s remote mines have added another day to this week’s strike,which will now go from Wednesday to Friday,giving the mining sector less than 36 hours to plan for a huge logistical challenge.
Strip tease artists and actors have greater workplace wage recognition than authors,web designers and sculptors,a landmark industrial award inquiry was told.
Parliament has just approved the third major workplace reform bill in the life of the Albanese government,but it’s just part of a much wider ‘fairness’ agenda.
The Federal Court has found the Bureau of Meteorology has breached workplace laws over its sacking of a former senior manager who alleged she was driven out of the organisation in a “sham redundancy”.