The FWC has cleared the way for a worker to challenge his "unusual" temporary sacking, confirming an administrative error that unintentionally ousts an employee can still amount to a "dismissal at law".
The FWC has refused to grant BHP a sweeping order enabling it to transfer its in-house labour-hire workers to its vast array of Pilbara iron ore mines.
The Business Council is asking the Albanese Government to allow employers to delay by up to a month the time they have to make final notice and accrued but untaken annual leave payments, to modernise an outmoded regime designed for cash payments.
A NSW PSA legal officer accused of falsifying her timesheets while working from home has failed to halt a misconduct investigation, but the FWC has directed the union to appoint an independent third party to continue the probe.
The newly-released full ACTU submission to the NES review calls for the Albanese Government to reduce maximum weekly hours from 38 to 35, as a step towards a four-day week, along with considering a national long service leave standard.
A right-wing think tank has told a Senate inquiry that productivity is an increasingly unreliable measure and other statistics provide a better gauge of the economy's health.
A fair work commissioner has extended time for a worker who drove 170km to hand-deliver his unfair dismissal claim, saying "unfortunate" is too gentle a word for delays that left the original languishing in the tribunal's shared mailbox at Hobart's Commonwealth Courts building.
In submissions to the NES review, unions are pushing for the Albanese Government to add 10 days paid reproductive leave to the standards, with the backing of a Labor senator, while the Centre for Future Work is advocating for an additional 10 days paid carers leave.
In what stands as an object lesson in how not to handle performance reviews, the FWC has highlighted the role of "managerial cowardice" and a passive HR department while reinstating a senior academic who received an "exceeds expectations" score shortly before three colleagues formally complained about her conduct.
The Productivity Commission has renewed calls to shake up IR in Australia's ports - outlawing agreements that impose "excessive constraints on productivity" and "equipping the FWC for an extended role" - in a submission to a Senate inquiry.
