The ACTU is backing calls to allow media and arts contractors to access minimum standards orders regardless of whether they use digital platforms, and to broaden labour hire "same-job, same-pay" orders to include conditions, in its submission to the Closing Loopholes review.
A senior FWC member has rebuked an experienced Telstra worker for wasting the tribunal's time on a "spiteful" anti-bullying bid based on "pedantic" complaints about his manager.
The National Employment Standards' weekly hours limit is incompatible with FIFO and 24/7 operations because of their reliance on averaged and extended shifts, and the "reasonableness" test is too burdensome, AREEA says in its submission to the NES inquiry.
A database manager's "wise" choice at the time not to challenge his summary sacking for falsifying timesheets contrasted with his "ill advised" decision to contest it in the FWC, a tribunal member has observed.
Employer groups have unleashed their fiercest criticism at the Albanese Government’s intractable bargaining regime, in submissions to the Closing Loopholes review, arguing it is unbalanced, rewards escalation and is causing the "most violent alarm".
A rope access technician has been ordered to pay $125,000 in costs after pursuing a failed underpayments and discrimination case described by the judge as "a textbook example of launching an action without reasonable cause".
The Albanese Government should consider expanding transition supports available to workers at closing coal mines and power stations and enable the Net Zero Economy Authority to collect information before the two-year closure trigger, the review of the just transition legislation has found in a newly-released report.
The FWC has backed a ferry operator's sacking of a customer service worker who proved unable to meet the requirements of her role due to deep vein thrombosis, finding it could not offer "reasonable adjustments" to accommodate her incapacity.
BHP says it has contingency plans in place to ensure continuity of power supply to its Pilbara mines and ports, as 60 workers who operate its remote electricity grid threaten what it says is its WA iron ore operation's first protected action this century.
