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Unions, law firm to mount menstrual leave campaign

A leading gender and IR expert says providing 12 paid menstruation and menopause leave days per year would be a "very positive start", as unions and Maurice Blackburn prepare a campaign likely to push for at least this level of entitlement via legislative reforms and agreements.

Employer told to cough up for testing time

In a significant decision on the nature of work, the FWC has found that the nursing home at the centre of one of Queensland's deadliest COVID-19 outbreaks should have paid employees for the time spent taking rapid antigen tests before the start of their shifts.

Parliament backs 10 days paid FDV leave

Ten days paid family and domestic violence leave is now a NES entitlement, after the House of Representatives this morning accepted the Senate's legislative amendments.

IR Bill empowers FWC to rule on rejected flex requests

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.


Nobody told us to resume considering appeal: FWC bench

A FWC full bench has taken a union and employer to task for failing to notify it to resume hearing the former's challenge to a contentious hospitality deal under which employees can work "voluntary" additional hours without penalties.

Class action lawyers grilled over costs

The Federal Court has again rounded on class action cost estimates provided by Adero Law, this time rejecting submissions that it took 180 hours to prepare pleadings in its pursuit of the Drakes supermarket chain and suggesting that it might have breached the Legal Profession Act.

Investigate right to disconnect, inquiry recommends

The Senate Work and Care inquiry's Labor and Greens majority is urging the Albanese Government to move swiftly to consider a right to disconnect, make flexibility requests an enforceable right and provide "roster justice" by ensuring workers with variable hours have predictability and certainty, in a 152-page interim report tabled this afternoon.

Labor to increase paid parental leave by six weeks

The Albanese Government will phase-in an increase in the total package of federally-funded paid parental leave from the current 20 weeks to 26 weeks between 2024 and 2026.