NSW nurses now best paid across nation

The NSW IRC's significant increases ordered today will result in midwives and registered and enrolled nurses at the top of the pay scale becoming the best paid in Australia.


Court provides practitioner guidance on AI

In new guidance on the use of generative AI, the Federal Court sets out obligations for practitioners, and warns that breaches can lead to adverse costs orders.


Telemetric tracking leads to postie's sacking

The FWC has upheld the summary dismissal of a postie caught speeding on his motorcycle on the footpath and "hanging out", in a ruling that exposes the extent to which Australia Post tracks the location, speed and work intensity of its workers.


Rises of up to 28% for NSW public sector nurses

The NSW IRC has today accepted the NSWNMA's position that their public sector members' work is undervalued, awarding heavily frontloaded increases of up to 28% over three years.



Costs after lawyer deemed own case "not worth running"

A lawyer ordered to pay $41,233 of $371,000 in costs incurred by Legal Aid Queensland in defending a discrimination claim she abandoned at the last minute is now facing further costs, after losing her appeal.


Ratings-based deactivation unreasonable: Bench

A FWC full bench had upheld an Uber Eats driver's appeal and ordered his reactivation, finding the food delivery giant failed to follow the deactivation code and unreasonably ejected him when his rating dropped below 85%.


Allowance not enough to justify off-duty contact: RTBU

The RTBU will argue in the first right to disconnect dispute hearing that an on-call allowance fails to adequately compensate a worker and the FWC should find reasonable his refusal to answer or make calls on his days off.


Panel moves toward issuing emergency fuel relief order

A FWC expert panel is seeking urgent feedback on a draft contractual chain order to ensure road transport workers can from the start of next week recoup higher fuel costs caused by the conflict in the Middle East.


Tribunal to rule on nurses' 35% pay claim

A NSW IRC full bench will on Thursday decide public sector nurses' special case bid for a 35% pay rise, while the state union's employees will get a 5% increase and a one-off "cost of living allowance" under a proposed agreement variation.


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