FSU seeking surveillance curbs at Commbank

The FSU is pushing the Commonwealth Bank for agreement-enshrined limits on its ability to monitor workers and use the data, claiming outdated laws are otherwise giving employers "free rein" to monitor every keystroke or conversation and keep tabs on toilet breaks. 


NSW IRC member promoted; & more

NSW IRC member promoted to deputy president; Call for AI standards to protect workers' rights; and Labor platform reveals possible jobs code content.


Decisions round-up: Costs against paid agent; & more

FWC to make rare costs order after drug dealing admission; Sacking over flight delay unfair; Text message proves worker resigned; and FIFO worker dismissed when employer stopped paying for flights.


Superior court judge fails to oust harassment claim

A judge's associate has won her bid to have her 10-years-late s-xual harassment and discrimination complaint against her former boss heard, after the Federal Court found she would have believed she would have no chance of his being held accountable before the High Court issued the Dyson Heydon apology.


HR director the wrong first step in dispute process: FWC

The FWC has dismissed a UFU bid to have it arbitrate a proposed income protection allowance, finding the union's practice of raising matters with Fire Rescue Victoria's people and culture executive director failed to invoke the dispute resolution procedure.


Paperless set to be new normal: Taylor

After NSW IRC President Ingmar Taylor recently confessed he is "somewhat evangelical" about the efficiencies of paperless hearings and suggested they will become the norm across all courts and tribunals, he has now issued a practice note for fully-electronic proceedings.


CFMEU corruption follows IR sea change: Study

A new analysis argues CFMEU corruption is a response to declining union power after the deregulation of IR and the shift to decentralised wage-setting.


UFU secretary's role in contentious deal "extraordinary": IBAC

Victoria's new Premier Ben Carroll has pledged to accept the recommendations of an IBAC report that finds the former Andrews Labor Government allowed UFU secretary Peter Marshall to exert "extraordinary influence" in negotiations for a controversial agreement.


Anti-bullying orders target AI emails

The FWC has ordered quarrelling parties to refrain from using artificial intelligence tools in their communications, to avoid unnecessarily "lengthy" and "accusatory" AI-prepared emails.



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