In a decision further expanding the breadth of flexibility requests, a senior FWC member has "with some hesitation" found that a warehouse's ban on mobile phones falls under the statutory definition of a "working arrangement" that can be changed.
The Federal Government should replace casual loading with an "unpredictability" bonus for those in genuinely insecure work, expand coverage of the National Employment Standards to capture many currently classified as casuals, and change the definition of "employee-like", according to the Centre for Future Work's David Peetz.
The Federal Court has refused to make an "indiscriminate" order to suppress a yet-to-be-filed concise statement and response that allegedly would contain commercially-sensitive information about a data centre operator.
The FSU is pushing the Commonwealth Bank for agreement-enshrined limits on its ability to monitor workers and use the data, claiming outdated laws are otherwise giving employers "free rein" to monitor every keystroke or conversation and keep tabs on toilet breaks.
FWC to make rare costs order after drug dealing admission; Sacking over flight delay unfair; Text message proves worker resigned; and FIFO worker dismissed when employer stopped paying for flights.
A judge's associate has won her bid to have her 10-years-late s-xual harassment and discrimination complaint against her former boss heard, after the Federal Court found she would have believed she would have no chance of his being held accountable before the High Court issued the Dyson Heydon apology.
The FWC has dismissed a UFU bid to have it arbitrate a proposed income protection allowance, finding the union's practice of raising matters with Fire Rescue Victoria's people and culture executive director failed to invoke the dispute resolution procedure.
After NSW IRC President Ingmar Taylor recently confessed he is "somewhat evangelical" about the efficiencies of paperless hearings and suggested they will become the norm across all courts and tribunals, he has now issued a practice note for fully-electronic proceedings.
A new analysis argues CFMEU corruption is a response to declining union power after the deregulation of IR and the shift to decentralised wage-setting.
