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Woolworths has told the Senate work and care inquiry that 37.4% of its casuals accepted offers to convert from casual to permanent, which chair Barbara Pocock says is much higher than the committee has otherwise heard.

A leading IR law academic has welcomed the Albanese Government's return to a more open process for FWC appointments, as DEWR seeks expressions of interest for vice president, deputy president, commissioner and expert panel member roles, but he says structural reform is needed to rebalance the tribunal.

ILO harassment treaty inquiry deadline looming; Pandemic provision to be axed; Ratify child labour convention, ACTU urges; and Westpac deal overcomes reasonable hours concerns.

The Human Rights Commission's latest survey of workplace sexual harassment shows little change in incidence over the past four years, while only two-thirds of workers reported their employer had anti-harassment policies and just one third had received training, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins told the National Press Club yesterday in a speech that also marked the first anniversary of her "Set the Standard" report on federal parliamentary workplaces.

South Australia's Malinauskas Labor Government has become the latest jurisdiction seeking to introduce industrial manslaughter laws, as proponents await the Federal government's next moves towards delivering on its election promise of national "harmonisation".

In the final hearing before the Senate inquiry into the Secure Jobs Bill releases its report today, key ACT Independent senator David Pocock this morning sought more clarity on how interest-based bargaining will work and probed a finding that the government's impact analysis is merely "adequate".

The ACTU says the Albanese Government's push for multi-employer bargaining is at risk of being "frustrated" unless enterprise bargaining is knocked off its pedestal as a preferred object of the Fair Work Act.

The Albanese Government's first major tranche of IR legislation beefs-up workers' rights to secure flexible working arrangements and empowers the FWC to arbitrate if conciliation of a refused request fails.

The Albanese Government has confirmed its Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill to be into introduced into Parliament next Thursday will include measures to close the gender pay gap, but IR academic Shae McCrystal says any legislation must also provide a right to strike or compulsory arbitration for workers engaging in multi-employer bargaining.

A former coal miner who is the new Federal Labor member for Hunter has used his first speech to call out "dodgy labour-hire arrangements", while praising the government's "same job, same pay" agenda.