University of Tasmania academic Sisitha Jayasinghe unsuccessfully challenged his termination over claims he bought Chanel perfume and gave lingering hugs to a post-graduate student despite her ...

A planned strike that would have seen hundreds of nurses across eight hospitals in New South Wales has been suspended by the ...

A major union is calling on the Coalition to pledge support for retail workers’ penalty rates ahead of a Fair Work fight.

The federal government is opposing amendments to the General Retail Industry Award (GRIA) which would see retail workers able ...

What has been proposed is that a voluntary salary absorption option would allow employees at higher classification levels to ...

In a statement to media, ARA chief industry affairs officer Fleur Brown said there is no proposal to remove penalty rates, overtime or paid breaks from the award.  This hit back comes after the ...

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President Trump issued a flurry of executive orders. Several may significantly impact employers; the key aspects of these ...

A planned 26-hour stop-work by nurses and midwives across eight New South Wales hospitals has been called off after a Fair ...

President Donald Trump appointed Andrew Ferguson to lead the Federal Trade Commission. Ferguson, a Republican, has vowed to ...

The Fair Work Commission (FWC) recently dealt with an unfair dismissal case where a concrete truck driver claimed he was ...

The Fair Work Commission (FWC) recently dealt with a case where a worker challenged her redundancy dismissal. After serving nearly 3.5 years at a sales office, she received unexpected news about her ...