The FWC has rejected a veteran bank loan manager's bid to expunge his name from all records of his failed dismissal challenge, despite accepting that it will make it difficult for him to find another job in the industry.
In the wake of the review of the Queensland IR Act, the Crisafulli Government has introduced legislation that enables the IR minister to terminate industrial action if it serves the public interest, prohibits workers from taking industrial action during conciliation or arbitration, and creates a new "fit and proper person" test for union officials.
A probationary aged care nurse has won an adverse action case after a people and culture executive sacked her without independently assessing allegations, relying instead on a manager's recommendation that had been influence by her complaints.
A new Bill introduced by the Minns Government will create same-job, same-pay protections for council workers employed under labour hire arrangements in NSW, who fall outside the federal regime.
An employer's clumsy and disorganised management practices rather than discrimination led to it giving a female employee just a few hours' notice before a job interview while her male colleagues had days to prepare, and it compounded its poor practice by then forgetting to tell her she failed to win the role, a tribunal has found.
The FWC has upheld Uber's deactivation of a driver accused of s-xual misconduct, despite expressing "significant concerns" about the company's failure to follow up with the rider whose complaint underpinned its decision.
A senior Albanese Government member has told an artificial intelligence conference that while the technology will unquestionably lift productivity, "sharing the benefits fairly" is the real challenge.
A full Federal Court has rejected a class action on behalf of University of Sydney doctoral students that argued recipients of Commonwealth-funded research scholarships are employees entitled to agreement-enshrined pay and conditions.
An unpaid layperson said to be representing 12 workers in the FWC has failed to convince a senior member she has an "automatic right" to represent a pilot in a late general protections case, with the tribunal also citing evidence she unsuccessfully sought a restraining order against the employer's lawyer and allegedly threatened his family.
In a ruling clarifying what payments employers can withhold during strikes, a court has determined that Chevron unlawfully subtracted a transport allowance due to FIFO workers bargaining at its West Australian LNG operations in 2023.
