The FWC has awarded $4000 compensation to an allegedly unhelpful IT help desk employee, reminding employers that performance-managing workers is about clear expectations and the steps required to meet them rather than "handholding".
A judge has questioned the FWO's "vigour" in seeking penalties against an "impoverished" dairy business whose owner is already struggling to make $300 weekly instalments to compensate an underpaid worker.
The FWC has awarded almost $25,000 to a former nightclub bookkeeper after finding that the company did not sufficiently remove her ex-husband and majority owner from the decision to sack her for mistakenly posting a t-pless photo in a workplace WhatsApp group.
An employment court has found that an employer did not breach a worker's right to disconnect when placing pressure on her to respond to "unreasonable" out-of-hours communications that included TikTok videos about her social life, in the first ruling on the untested provisions.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has refused to stay the deregistration of one auditor and suspension of another found to fallen short in their duties to an embattled HSU branch, concluding that no weight should be given to their "desire for reputational repair" while their appeals are heard.
A company owner who r-ped and s-xually harassed a former employee and then threatened her for making a complaint must pay her $255,000 in compensation, including a general damages record of $170,000 for s-xual harassment, $50,000 for "terrifying" victimisation and $35,000 in aggravated damages.
The Victorian lower house has passed legislation targeting unregistered unions, after RAFFWU, the Greens and the Liberal Party accused Labor of factional favours and of undermining freedom of association, while the State's workplace protection legislation has passed Parliament.
A Federal Court judge is using a McDonald's class action to test the ability of AI to transform the way courts collate and analyse vast quantities of information, following a speech in which he urged a "far more ambitious" approach to harnessing the technology.
A full Federal Court might consider imposing broader vexatious proceedings restrictions on a self-represented worker with five claims on foot, after a judge ordered that three of his related appeals be heard together.
