A Coalition majority on a Senate inquiry has recommended permitting first home buyers to withdraw an unlimited amount from their super accounts to fund their purchase, but Labor senators say the policy is "is bad for superannuation and bad for home ownership".
Commission seeking submissions on draft delegates clause; FWC pay panel looking for answers on employer claims; Peace deal for QantasLink Tamworth engineers; FAAA's O'Toole returned for four more years; Labour law conference seeking papers; Queensland IRC member to address Brisbane conference; and UN body celebrates Tran's path from refugee to FWC.
NSW unions are looking for solutions as "extremely shocking" preliminary results of an unpaid overtime survey suggest it is rife, with whole industries apparently dependent on it.
The TWU says it will campaign for Aldi to sign a national road transport enterprise agreement and if necessary will use new Closing Loopholes provisions to force the retailer to the negotiating table.
The ACTU has withdrawn its request to intervene in a MEU "same job same, pay" test case aiming to lift the pay of Workpac labour hire mineworkers after the employers, host employer and Ai Group confirmed they do not oppose the application.
Victoria's Allan Labor Government intends to repeal its wage theft offence and shut its gig worker advisory service, following the passage of the federal Closing Loopholes legislation that covers the same field, according to papers for the State's 2024-25 Budget.
The Australian Licenced Aircraft Engineers Association is at the pointy end of a bid for an intractable bargaining declaration to break an alleged "impasse" in negotiations on behalf of Qantas engineers in Tamworth, with the Flying Kangaroo and the union due to report back to the FWC this morning.
Employers have succeeded in varying an award clause a FWC full bench agrees could produce the "absurd" result of workers receiving five times the prescribed minimum rates.
The Queensland Government has de-criminalised s-x work, implementing Queensland Law Reform Commission recommendations with the aim of improving s-x workers' health, safety and workplace rights, and treating s-x work "as work rather than as a crime".
