Browsing: Industrial relations, disputes & unions (527 items)

An employer has been chastised for telling part-time employees they could only bid for additional shifts by signing individual flexibility agreements that waived their right to overtime.

• FWC full bench to scrutinise "unethical" workplace advisor's representation
  
• Majority of Australian employers admit to 'accidental wage theft'
  
• Reframing AI as "amplified intelligence"

• Right to disconnect 'inadvertently' attracts criminal sanctions, for now
  
• HR professionals alerted after AHRI cyber attack
  
• New discrimination commissioners appointed

The 'right to disconnect' expected to be introduced this week is potentially a "micro intervention" into employers' operations at a time when the focus should instead be on productivity, a workplace lawyer says.

Amendments in the Closing Loopholes No. 2 Bill will 'strangle' casual employment, business representatives say.

In a Senate inquiry report, Labor and the Greens have expressed their support for the Closing Loopholes No. 2 Bill, subject to adding a new 'right to disconnect', and further casual and gig work amendments. But Coalition members say the Bill will be a "jobs killer".

The Federal Government is set to legislate a new 'right to disconnect' for employees, but details of how this might be implemented are yet to be revealed.

A workplace advisor has added to its lengthy history of "problematic" conduct before the Fair Work Commission, which has formally recommended it repay a settlement sum it received on behalf of an employee.

The Fair Work Commission has established a working group to examine how to ensure all paid agents act ethically, honestly, and in the best interests of the parties they represent.

• FWC considering 'work and care' award variations
  
• HR trailblazer receives Australia Day honours
  
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