Howard Government Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith, the architect of the 1996 Workplace Relations Act and a prime mover with Patrick's Chris Corrigan in the landmark 1998 waterfront dispute, died today.
After almost 11 years as FWC president, Iain Ross has resigned, saying that with new federal IR legislation looming, it will give his successor the chance to be "fully involved" in implementing the resulting changes.
Justice Jayne Jagot, a regular member of Federal Court benches considering IR matters, has today joined the first High Court to feature a majority of women.
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.
A leading employment law and IR academic says the Albanese Government needs to decide how it will go about "rebalancing" the FWC before it settles on a successor to President Iain Ross, suggesting it has three options.
Ai Group head of national workplace relations policy Stephen Smith is moving on after more than 30 years with the employer group, while NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association general secretary Brett Holmes is retiring after two decades in the branch's top job.
Key independent Senator David Pocock says he laughed when recently described as a kingmaker, preferring the role of "peacebroker in the 47th Parliament", ahead of the upper house today considering an Opposition bid to strike down the regulation that guts the ABCC's powers.
A union representative has praised one of the FWC's newest members for her "gloves-off advocacy" on behalf of employers, while offering a greeting in Maltese as a nod to their shared heritage.
The Albanese Government is continuing to add to its IR expertise, with the the appointment to the PM's office of long-serving CFMMEU mining and energy division national legal officer Alex Bukarica as a senior advisor.