A FWC full bench has reassured a union that majority support determinations are still a possibility in circumstances where apprentices form a "subgroup" at group training organisations.
Extend family and domestic violence provisions to include perpetrators beyond immediate family, weigh whether to expand the employee-like worker framework to include journalists and performers, and form a tripartite committee of unions and employers to report annually on emerging IR issues, the Closing Loopholes review's final report recommends.
The Federal Court has granted property advisory business Savills a 20-year suppression order, after finding publication of stayed sexual harassment and discrimination allegations would undermine the effectiveness of its earlier orders.
A Federal Court AI symposium has heard the legal profession needs a nationally consistent regulatory approach, while one of the most senior members of England and Wales' judiciary warned another forum the technology will inevitably become a "judicial decision-maker" in some fields.
In what might be the first FWC costs order for failing to heed warnings against proceeding with AI-assisted cases afflicted by "unfixable" flaws, the FWC has taken the "very rare step" of ordering a worker to pay part of his former employer's costs of defending his "doomed" unfair dismissal claim.
The NSW IRC had to evacuate at the start of a speech by a new member likened to a beam of sunshine with a collaborative approach that helped keep the State's lights on, but when the fire truck departed, he said a supermarket job ignited his interest in IR.
In a significant decision on calculating compensation for unfairly dismissed workers, a FWC full bench has held that the tribunal should not have reduced a worker's payout to factor in income received months after her anticipated earnings period.
The ETU is accusing BHP managers of breaching organisers' entry rights at a meeting of members at Port Hedland today, and will challenge the company's actions in the Federal Court, while the company contends the organisers "loudly interrupted" a crib room and "became aggressive".
The Federal Court says a first-of-its-kind research partnership with the University of NSW will shape approaches to unrepresented litigants across the justice system, with one academic pointing out that effective responses "depend on a good diagnosis".
