A council's desire to have a senior planning team member pass on his wisdom in-person provided reasonable business grounds to refuse his request to work at home for all but six days a month, the FWC has found.
A FWC full bench has rejected an employer's application to axe an expired agreement because of a lack of evidence to support its claim that it made it run at a loss, and after it emerged that it sought the termination to end proceedings the CFMEU brought under the deal's dispute provisions.
AWU production operators have voted today to authorise industrial action, which will clear the way for port-wide strikes at BHP's Port Hedland operations, ahead of the next bargaining meeting tomorrow.
In a significant ruling on parliamentary privilege, a full Federal Court has found that Hansard extracts should not have been used to support a bias claim against a Labor politician-turned-FWC-member weighing same-job, same-pay orders.
A 20-seconds late FWC lodgement has been fatal for a worker who claimed her employer discriminated against her when it dismissed her for refusing to undergo an independent medical examination after she disclosed her neurodiversity.
A judge has fired a shot across the bow of litigants relying on "sycophantic" AI to run their cases, observing that a delivery driver alleging adverse action came "perilously close" to being held in contempt after failing to produce evidence found to be either mischaracterised or non-existent.
The Federal Court will hear a former Health Department compliance evaluator's challenge to the FWC upholding his dismissal for engaging in persistent and unreasonable complainant conduct, including communications that left managers in fear of making adverse decisions.
The Australian Public Service Commission has issued a bargaining notice to kick-off negotiations for a new service-wide framework agreement, with the CPSU seeking 5% pay increases, an additional week of annual leave and strong AI protections.
