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.
A FWC full bench had upheld an Uber Eats driver's appeal and ordered his reactivation, finding the food delivery giant failed to follow the deactivation code and unreasonably ejected him when his rating dropped below 85%.
The RTBU will argue in the first right to disconnect dispute hearing that an on-call allowance fails to adequately compensate a worker and the FWC should find reasonable his refusal to answer or make calls on his days off.
A FWC expert panel is seeking urgent feedback on a draft contractual chain order to ensure road transport workers can from the start of next week recoup higher fuel costs caused by the conflict in the Middle East.
A NSW IRC full bench will on Thursday decide public sector nurses' special case bid for a 35% pay rise, while the state union's employees will get a 5% increase and a one-off "cost of living allowance" under a proposed agreement variation.
Uber has reached agreement with the TWU to add a 5c-per-kilometre surcharge that goes directly to drivers, off the back of FWC hearings into fuel price relief for the road transport sector.
The ACTU has this morning lodged an urgent case in the FWC seeking a minimum 10c-per-kilometre increase to vehicle allowances in modern awards, to address the Iran War-related spike in fuel costs.
Resources employer organisation AREEA has asked Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth to raise the retirement age for FWC members from 65 to 70, saying it has a new urgency as the tribunal struggles with unprecedented workload growth.
A full Federal Court has confirmed that class actions cannot start until members are correctly identified but can "transmogrify", after Adero Law conceded the definition contained in a store managers' claim against The Reject Shop left the group "empty".
A Federal Court judge has warned that industrial law barristers who see themselves as "permanent partisans" risk undermining the ethics and standing of the profession.
