A tribunal is poised to order a council to pay more than $900,000 to a worker it discriminated against by sacking him over his inability to drive an allocated vehicle, in a decision panning a "chilling" suggestion that show cause letters formed part of consultations to identify reasonable adjustments.
A Federal Court judge has declined to recuse herself from hearing the parallel cases of a former aircraft engineer on the basis that she is a member of Qantas's Chairman's Lounge.
A FWC member has traversed recent case law during a conference at which she reminded practitioners of the "regulatory consequences" for breaching professional obligations in their use of generative artificial intelligence.
Uber's business model has withstood scrutiny in the first test under the Fair Work Act's new unfair contracts provisions to probe its use of the same "cab rank principle" that applies to barristers.
A judge has suppressed details of a criminal defence lawyer's adverse action case against the firm that recently represented alleged Bondi gunman Naveed Akram, noting that any efforts at mediation would be "imperilled" by the airing of "sensitive" allegations and medical reports.
A FWC full bench has upheld the reinstatement of a senior academic sacked for s-xual harassment, noting that while his "creepy" conduct breached the university's Appropriate Workplace Behaviour policy, he had apologised to the employee and had no further contact with her after HR intervened three years before his dismissal.
The ETU, AMWU and AWU will apply to the FWC for an intractable bargaining declaration for BHP's Pilbara iron ore export port operations this week, seeking to resolve a stalemate after 12 months of what they say have been fruitless negotiations.
Early educators guaranteed 15% pay rise; "De-escalation" training for parliamentarians; Loxton, Stam appointed to SAET; and Technology and productivity inquiry.
A FWC full bench has rebuffed an employer's challenge to a same-job, same-pay ruling, in its first full bench consideration of the interaction between SJSP legislation and transfer of business provisions.
The FWC has ordered compensation for an unfairly sacked WesTrac specialist who altered a leave claim to secure payment for public holidays during the Stokes family-controlled company's end-of-year shutdown period.
