NSW Shadow IR Minister James Wallace has retained his portfolio in a reshuffle this week, while Susan Carter joins the Opposition frontbench as Shadow Attorney-General.
The FWC has ordered a university to allow an advisor to work from home one day a week, despite finding it had reasonable business grounds to reject the two-days-a-week WFH flexibility request she made on the basis of her age.
A court has declined to hear discrimination cases brought by three health workers sacked mid-pandemic for refusing COVID-19 jabs, finding no merit in their arguments that being unvaccinated should be treated as a disability.
The FWC has ruled that BHP cannot exclude two home-owning mineworkers from consideration for company housing, when neither their enterprise agreement nor its incorporated accommodation agreement imposed this restriction.
A tribunal has ruled that an employer discriminated against a transgender employee by unreasonably using his former name during internal recruitment, which risked outing him at work.
Employer groups have welcomed a plan by the Coalition to prioritise skilled migration and targeted regional programs if it wins the next federal election, but it, Labor and One Nation are facing criticism for competing on "arbitrary" cuts to net overseas migration.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has sent the ASU back to the drawing board to precisely detail its case for further award-based pay rises for community and disability workers after receiving the union's latest "aspirational" pitch for increases of up to 35%.
The FWC has extended time for a HR manager with a "debilitating" undiagnosed neurological condition to file her general protections claim, despite accepting the medical evidence failed to prove her incapacitation during the 21-day statutory limitation period.
A full bench has upheld orders requiring a BHP labour hire subsidiary to reinstate to a different mine a worker accused of aggressive conduct, finding a FWC member did not impose an "unmeetable burden" on workplace investigations, while the company's challenge to his colleague's reinstatement order is waiting in the wings.
The ACTU is broadly supportive of the Albanese Government's draft legislation to limit the use of non-compete clauses in employment contracts, but is seeking stronger protections, while revealing it expects the Government will table a second proposed raft of changes.
