The FWC has recommended that Queensland Rail end a "longstanding impasse" by agreeing to bargain for a standalone agreement for electrical workers, enabling broader negotations to progress, warning that otherwise the parties face the prospect of heading "down the path of the Sydney Trains bargaining dispute".
Queensland's Crisafulli Government has finally launched its review of the former Miles Government's Respect at Work anti-discrimination changes, just weeks after it defeated an Opposition attempt to re-launch a positive duty for employers to prevent s-xual harassment.
An academic says FWC decisions this week, ordering Uber to reactivate drivers accused of sexual misconduct and touting, highlight growing scrutiny of platform decision‑making, with the tribunal finding that relying on untested complaints fell short of the Briginshaw standard and breached the deactivation code.
A Fair Work Commission member has offered a "simpler" approach to determining whether workers' employment ended at the employer's initiative in cases involving alleged abandonment of employment.
BHP's Pilbara port operations are facing the real prospect of grinding to a halt, after employees in its key iron ore export hub overwhelmingly voted in favour of industrial action, following six months of what they claim have been "fruitless" enterprise negotiations.
NT Corrections has for the third time failed to halt prison officer strikes, with the FWC finding that the industrial action is protected and the UWU has complied with its assurances that it would protect the safety of prisoners.
The FWC has ordered BHP's labour hire arm to reinstate a worker sacked for saying a female colleague had a "giga-chin" and a "fat -rse", finding he had no idea what the first term meant and that the second accusation, when reframed as "phat -rse", gave it a different complexion.
The FWC has urged the operator of Melbourne's rail network to review its approach to s-xual harassment claims after a "troubling" finding that representatives from its HR department could not pinpoint who had carriage of a complaint and struggled to identify relevant policies and procedures.
A barrister who moonlights as an umpire can proceed with her general protections claim against Tennis Australia after the FWC determined that TA employed her as a casual when it blocked her access to tournaments for allegedly breaching undertakings to never criticise its management of the sport.
Inpex is seeking FWC intervention to stop industrial action that it claims is threatening the national and NT economies, the LNG export industry and the health and safety of local gas customers.
