The FWC has extended time for an employee to lodge her late adverse action claim because she tried twice to file it online within time and twice more soon afterwards, before fronting the registry and lodging it in person.
The Albanese Government should create a new system of occupation-based rather than industry-oriented awards containing only wages and classifications, to tackle the "wage lottery" created by the overly complex regime, according to the HR Nicholls Society.
Former IR barrister David Shoebridge has today been elected as leader of the Federal Greens' parliamentary team, after Larissa Waters stood down due to ill health.
A labour supplier has failed to win costs against the AWU, after claiming that a PALM scheme worker had not authorised the union to file an unfair dismissal claim that it ultimately discontinued.
The FWC has cleared a general manager's late unfair sacking claim to proceed after a law firm's graduate employee advised him to file it in the wrong jurisdiction, finding it "unreasonable and unrealistic" to assume the GM had been in a good position to identify the correct forum.
Tutor's sacking over "s-x object" comment warranted; $16K compensation after "cursory" text message dismissal; "False hope" provided by AI; Expelled priest not an employee; and Bench upholds joint smoker's reinstatement.
The FWC will early next year hear FAAA and TWU bids to boost flight attendants' pay up to 60% by overhauling the modern award, relying on gender-based undervaluation and changes to the nature of their work.
A bargaining dispute between the FSU and the Reserve Bank heads to the FWC today, as the union seeks to head off a second-round offer it believes will be unchanged from an original proposal voted down in July.
The FWC has ordered an employer to withdraw its offer of a "customer service continuity payment" for employees working through protected industrial action.
