Any legislating of the right to work from home should be applied fairly.
The Fair Work Commission is investigating whether it needs to change the basic rights for award workers just a week after the right to disconnect was made law.
Senator Barbara Pocock retreated to her parliamentary office in Canberra for a critical meeting with fellow kingmaker David Pocock last week. The mood was tense.
The right to disconnect has been law for less than a week,but the Albanese government is already facing a battle with its own staffers on work-life boundaries.
Strip tease artists and actors have greater workplace wage recognition than authors,web designers and sculptors,a landmark industrial award inquiry was told.
Parliament has just approved the third major workplace reform bill in the life of the Albanese government,but it’s just part of a much wider ‘fairness’ agenda.
Bosses fear a new law preventing them from contacting workers too much after hours will open the door to vexatious claims – and the government is already hoping to make a big change.
A right to disconnect has been inserted into Labor’s latest industrial reforms,under which employers face fines or criminal sanctions if they fail to comply.
Think your boss is calling you too much after work? You will soon have a way to stop them under legislation going before parliament.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke used the end of the stalemate between ports operator DP World and the maritime union to vindicate his refusal to intervene in the wage dispute.
Independent senators David Pocock and Jacqui Lambie have detailed extensive concerns with the remainder of Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke’s Closing Loopholes legislation.