Labor's triennial national conference has today amended the party's national policy platform to support changes to streamline multi-employer bargaining, and work towards lifting paid parental leave from 26 weeks to 52 and clamp down on so-called "sham" unions.
In another FWC case blighted by AI, a senior member has lamented the time wasted by tribunal staff and an employer as a result of a self-represented worker's citing of three supposedly pertinent decisions, two of them irrelevant and one that "simply did not exist".
In a judgment confirming workers can seek to recoup underpayments through the Consumer Law, the Federal Court has found Domino's responsible for short-changing workers by misleading no fewer than 300 franchise operators into applying old SDA-negotiated agreements instead of the award.
A sacked teacher has failed to revive his anti-bullying application despite claiming a female colleague s-xually harassed him when she called him "Mr Baldy".
Labor has today amended its policy platform to support superannuation for under-18 workers, after its payday super provisions denied super on the earnings of half a million young part-timers, including 56,000 at McDonald's alone.
In a significant judgment on what constitutes "automation", the Federal Court has ruled that stevedore DP World is not required to consult extensively over plans to have drivers control quayside cranes remotely, because it does not represent "a significant change to the mode of operation" under the terms of its agreement.
The FWC would boost its capacity to deal with AI-driven workplace change by establishing an AI expert panel, under a provision in Labor's draft policy platform to be put to its triennial national conference that starts this morning in Adelaide.
A lawyer's "vague" advice and general inaction around lodging a worker's general protections application warranted extending time for a one-day-late claim, the FWC has found.
A senior FWC member has addressed a First Nations worker's concerns that Services Australia subjected her to an unfair performance management plan, overly monitored her, and failed to provide cultural safety, before leaving no option but to resign.
