The ATO has failed to convince a full Federal Court that a grammar school's final payout to an early learning centre assistant did not qualify as a tax-free "genuine redundancy" sum because the employer still needed another employee to perform her duties.

Electors perceived as "Trump-like" the Dutton Opposition's plans to axe 40,000 public sector jobs and scrap work from home for federal public servants, with the WFH policy fuelling views that the Liberals were "unsympathetic to the needs of women", according to a damning review of the Liberal Party's 2025 federal election campaign.

Employers are failing to analyse and respond to the drivers of the gender pay gap, including a major contributor - discretionary payments - the Workplace Gender Equality Agency said today in in its latest report.

Forthcoming Victorian laws providing rights to work from home two days a week will apply to businesses big and small, according to Premier Jacinta Allan.

The mother of a young child had "understandable" reasons for wanting to make her part-time job completely remote so her partner could take up better opportunities interstate, but the FWC has found insufficient connection between her caring duties and her job to empower it to arbitrate the flexible work dispute.

A plan to legislate employee rights to work from home is a "solution looking for a problem", ACCI has told a Senate inquiry into the proposed bill.

UK employers might have to pay workers up to eight weeks compensation if they unreasonably refuse a flexible work request, under changes proposed by the Starmer Government.

New laws are needed to protect workers from the little-understood rapid intrusion of workplace surveillance – some of it fuelled by artificial intelligence – into their "homes, bodies and emotions", according to a new UTS study.

Working from home arrangements have been a big success in the Australian Public Service, with a mere handful of disputes about flexible work requests, the CPSU has told a Senate inquiry into a bill aimed at enshrining WFH rights.

A judge has refused to accept the CFMEU's claim that it can't admit to entry right breaches at a major project because "it does not know", pointing to the union's "cursory" efforts to scrutinise body-worn camera footage from its own officials.