The FWC will next week hold a further conference to hear from transport industry and supply chain participants about the powers it might have to address the dramatic fuel price spike arising from the Iran war.
An "obstinate" worker's "barrage" of lengthy AI-generated "dense, repetitive and often rambling" emails and refusal to accept that his employer had resolved his complaints warranted his dismissal, the FWC has ruled.
Failing to collect data on neurodivergence at work limits an employer's ability to identify barriers and provide support, and might lead to perceptions the employer is not inclusive, the Diversity Council says in newly-released guidance.
Casuals in regular, continung employment should be entitled to paid leave and those in genuinely erratic work an "unpredictability bonus", the Centre for Future Work argues in its submission to the Closing Loopholes review.
A worker's conviction for a s-xual offence against a child he committed as a 16-year-old will be made public and exposed to his employer, after he failed in a court bid to have the matter treated as "spent".
FWC member and former ETU NSW branch secretary Bernie Riordan has thrown out a demand that he recuse himself from an anti-bullying case due to his alleged "connection" with a union leader named as a respondent, saying the tribunal would "grind to a halt" if it acceded to such requests.
The FAAA is calling for a further tightening of the Closing Loopholes reforms, warning that offshoring arrangements and other tactics risk being used to sidestep or undermine the "same job, same pay" regime.
Employers should consider broadening the definition of "family" in flexible work policies to reflect Indigenous kinship networks, according to the Centre for Indigenous People and Work, while unions are calling for a similar change to the NES leave entitlements, along with a new cultural leave entitlement.
The FWC is considering using new powers to unilaterally amend proposed agreements to cure a seven-day limit on taking disputes to the FWC, placing at risk workers' right to escalate grievances.
A CFMEU submission to the Senate productivity inquiry makes 20 recommendations to improve efficiency in building and construction, but makes no mention of the criminality and corruption issues that triggered its takeover by an administrator.
