The NSW IRC has today fined the doctors' union $30,000 - 60% of the maximum - for flagrantly defying anti-strike orders when they walked off the job for three days last year.
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The FWC has found a private health care provider should re-start consultations about removing a "legacy" condition of paid meal breaks for its longest-serving nurses, after it told them the apparently undocumented benefit is no longer "an option".
A senior FWC member has used an experienced Jetstar aircraft maintenance engineer's unsuccessful challenge to his sacking to emphasise that "hazing" is no longer considered "funny", after he left two apprentices stranded six metres in the air under a Boeing 787 wing while he went to lunch.
The NSW IRC's significant increases ordered today will result in midwives and registered and enrolled nurses at the top of the pay scale becoming the best paid in Australia.
In new guidance on the use of generative AI, the Federal Court sets out obligations for practitioners, and warns that breaches can lead to adverse costs orders.
The FWC has upheld the summary dismissal of a postie caught speeding on his motorcycle on the footpath and "hanging out", in a ruling that exposes the extent to which Australia Post tracks the location, speed and work intensity of its workers.
The NSW IRC has today accepted the NSWNMA's position that their public sector members' work is undervalued, awarding heavily frontloaded increases of up to 28% over three years.
Existing AI technologies could boost labour productivity growth in Australia to levels last seen in the late 1990s and early 2000s, according to a leading AI developer.
A lawyer ordered to pay $41,233 of $371,000 in costs incurred by Legal Aid Queensland in defending a discrimination claim she abandoned at the last minute is now facing further costs, after losing her appeal.
