New Wage Theft Legislation to Be Proposed Next Month
Queensland employers caught committing wage theft could face up to fourteen years in prison under laws to be proposed next month.
A 2018 inquiry discovered almost one in four Queensland workers were not being paid their full wage.
Industrial Relations Minister Grace Grace says amendments will be made to the criminal code after years of union pressure on state and federal governments.
Wage theft includes not paying superannuation, withholding leave entitlements and short changing staff.
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Palestinian protests escalate as Israeli bulldozers clear land
Palestinians have protested in the West Bank after Israeli bulldozers began clearing land. Villagers fear it may be an attempt by Israel to confiscate the land for future Jewish settlements.
Tensions rose this week after Palestinians have claimed settlers were empowered by U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud Party lead the vote count after Monday’s election, and a victory would open the way for Netanyahu’s pledge to annex settlements in the West Bank under Trump’s peace plan.
EU proposes new climate law
The European Union has proposed a climate law that will set a target of net zero carbon emissions across the bloc by 2050.
Greta Thunberg has denounced the announcement as “empty words” describing the proposal as, “giving up on the Paris Agreement,” which was signed in 2016 by almost two hundred nations who proposed to limit their emissions.
Many activists have called on the EU to set a target for 2030 and to further specify how it would be achieved.
Study shows global warming boosted risk of bushfires by thirty per cent
A recent study assessing the role of climate change in the Australian bushfires has determined global warming boosted the risk of bushfires by at least thirty per cent.
However, the World Weather Attribution, who carried out this analysis, say the figure of thirty percent is a conservative estimate; they have posited the actual figures could be much higher.
Oxford Professor, Friederike Otto, says that work is needed to more accurately display the risk of bushfires because current climate models consistently underestimate figures.
ASD spies on Australians
Director of the Australian Signals Directorate, Rachel Noble, has confirmed the government agency have spied on Australians over the last year by seeking to extend its powers in a number of cases.
Noble indicated the agency had produced intelligence about Australians.
This revelation comes after the home affairs department secretary, Michael Pezzullo, confirmed there is ‘detailed consideration’ underway to better use law enforcement to tackle the dark web.