A Federal Court judge is using a McDonald's class action to test the ability of AI to transform the way courts collate and analyse vast quantities of information, following a speech in which he urged a "far more ambitious" approach to harnessing the technology.
A full Federal Court might consider imposing broader vexatious proceedings restrictions on a self-represented worker with five claims on foot, after a judge ordered that three of his related appeals be heard together.
The nursing union is prosecuting an aged care provider it accuses of over-counting the "care minutes" that are a key part of the Albanese Government's reforms to lift standards in the sector.
A judge has urged courts to be "far more ambitious" in harnessing AI, potentially by developing tools to guide and synthesise cases filed by self-represented applicants, to analyse discovery material, and to change the machinery for using expert knowledge.
In a novel and urgent FWC challenge, the SDA is accusing Bunnings of "gaming the system" and fundamentally undermining Australia's modern bargaining framework, because the hardware giant is changing the legal employer of a group of workers, when the parties are on the verge of reaching an agreement after more than a year of negotiations.
A court has permanently stayed a self-represented worker's dismissal challenge and will consider hitting him with a costs order after he used a common app to access "hidden text" in his former employer's privileged subpoenaed documents.
A worker's one-day-late general protections claim can proceed, after the FWC accepted that the AMWU's withdrawal from representing him just two days before the filing deadline left him "temporarily incapacitated".
A franchisor chief executive found in June to have engaged in "predatory and grooming" conduct towards a female employee 40 years his junior has now been ordered to pay her more than $72,000 in damages.
The FWC has temporarily increased the vehicle-related allowances in the SCHADS and aged care awards to compensate workers for the fuel price surge from the Middle East conflict, but has declined to make the change in 39 other awards.
A FWC full bench has refused to delay the phasing-in of junior rates changes, while rejecting SDA arguments that a six-month qualifying period before 18 to 20-year-old retail, fast food and pharmacy workers receive full adult pay should be based on their time under an award rather than length of service with an individual employer.
