Five years after a judge delayed a trial over concerns that he could not properly assess witness credibility when evidence is given remotely, another judicial officer has hailed the technology as aiding the task because large courtroom screens mean reactions and responses "tend to be exaggerated, rather than minimised".
Treasury's latest intergenerational report, released this afternoon, predicts Australia will have a far older working-age population in the 2060s, while artificial intelligence is expected to help achieve its long-term productivity growth assumptions.
The FWC will this afternoon hear Uber's bid to stay, pending its appeal, the reactivation of a driver accused of speeding and watching YouTube while at the wheel, after its own data proved "particularly damning" for its case.
The FWC has declared the long-running Queensland Rail dispute resolved following a "substantial" and "intensive" undertaking, while strongly urging workers vote to accept seven in-principle deals rather than holding out for an intractable bargaining process.
The FWC has made it clear that it is not its role to protect the personal assets of directors, in dismissing a mining services contractor's request to escape paying $190,000 in redundancies.
Workplace relations minister Amanda Rishworth, after she convened an employer roundtable this morning, is set to consult with unions, as the Albanese Government starts to shape tripartite best practice guidance for AI in the workplace and the public service considers restrictions on smart glasses in the APS.
FWC GM Murray Furlong has begun prosecuting former senior CFMEU construction division Victorian branch officials - primarily president Rob Graauwmans - for allegedly authorising payment of more than $300,000 of union funds to printing companies to benefit ex-HSU leader Diana Asmar as she campaigned for re-election.
Thomas Costa says his first priority as the new leader of Unions NSW will be campaigning against One Nation's "anti-worker" and "incredibly offensive" policies in the lead-up to the State election in March next year.
The FWC has thrown out a worker's flexible work bid after she attempted to "call in" older medical documents and conceded she had not been diagnosed with the disability identified in her request.
A law firm has launched the first major underpayment class action against a private Australian university, it claims, over the alleged short-changing of casual academics.
