International employment tribunals share the AI-driven challenges of swiftly rising caseloads, but the FWC is ahead of the curve on tackling and harnessing AI compared to its international counterparts, it emerged at a conference this week.

The FWC has emerged as a leader in finding innovative ways to deal with significant workload challenges posed by AI, with the tribunal's general manager Murray Furlong telling an international forum there are "very early signs of optimism".

A High Court majority has today deemed Uber drivers' fares for performing driving work to be wages for the purpose of NSW payroll tax legislation, in a ruling that might have implications for efforts to extend the IR system's regulation of platforms and gig workers.

Complaints to the Queensland Human Rights Commission are up by 60%, with an average of 47 arriving each week, partly driven by assistance from artificial intelligence, while employment-related complaints are up by 42%.

Most regulatory and workplace responses to family and domestic violence remain victim-survivor-focused, but to "actively contribute to the prevention and elimination of FDV", perpetrators' behaviour needs greater attention, an academic article has found.

A senior Commonwealth Bank employee failed to disclose his connection with a mortgage broker, defied the employer's bans on using WeChat and his personal mobile phone to arrange home loans and then paraded "a chaotic collection of lies, nonsense, poorly matched ideas, and manufactured responses" in his doomed unfair dismissal case in the FWC.

The FWC has rejected the United Firefighters Union's claim that its history of disputes with a government employer's IR advisor meant he could not impartially investigate serious misconduct allegations against a member.

The meat union has launched a Federal Court representative-style proceeding on behalf of cleaners at a Steggles poultry processing facility, alleging it engaged them at the lowest award classification to perform tasks such as removing blood and guts from the "kill floor" and boning room, when they should have been paid at a higher grade.

A senior employment and IR law academic has admitted to committing a serious criminal offence.

The CPSU has officially rejected the Albanese Government's pay offer of 9% over three years for federal public servants after members overwhelmingly shunned it in a snap union poll.