The International Labour Organisation has adopted a "breakthrough" standard for digital platform workers, that if ratified by the Federal Government, would impose an international obligation to ensure their rates match the minimum wage.

The "unprecedented" AI-driven rise in the FWC's caseload has now pushed average clearance rates up from less than four weeks to more than six weeks, and while the Commission is taking action to respond, it concedes it would be easier to "catch the wind" than to curb the technology.

Victoria's Allan Government has today introduced its long-heralded legislation to entrench a right to work from home for two days a week.

The Fair Work Act's provisions that prescribe its geographic outer limits might serve as excellent bedtime reading for insomniacs, a FWC member has suggested after navigating them.

The FWC has upheld the sacking of a call centre manager who warned a worker against making complaints because she had "HR in her back pocket".

In a decision highlighting the need to confirm an employee's intentions before taking an ambiguous or emotionally charged exchange to be a resignation, the FWC will continue hearing a farm hand's unfair dismissal case after rejecting the employer's argument that he quit of his own volition.

The FWC has refused to halt Inpex employees' industrial action, finding that the $15 to $22 million daily cost of a shutdown would not significantly damage the economy, or risk the safety of the Northern Territory population.

In the wake of concerns that rideshare and delivery drivers are overturning deactivations despite serious infractions, a revised legislative instrument promulgated by workplace relations minister Amanda Rishworth will enable digital labour platforms to "take decisive action" to respond to allegations of misconduct, such as s-xual harassment.

Former federal political staffer Jo Tarnawsky and long-serving parliamentary employee Anna Hough have drawn on their own experiences of alleged workplace bullying and s-xual assault in adding to calls at a Canberra conference for curbs on non-disclosure deals and better support for victim-survivors.

The FWC has recommended that Queensland Rail end a "longstanding impasse" by agreeing to bargain for a standalone agreement for electrical workers, enabling broader negotations to progress, warning that otherwise the parties face the prospect of heading "down the path of the Sydney Trains bargaining dispute".