A NDIS-registered medical provider's "frivolous" spending on "staff wellbeing" birthday celebrations and "recklessness" in hiring new staff while struggling to meet a speech pathologist's redundancy entitlements has helped undo its bid to slash her payout.
The Albanese Government has appointed an outsider to replace Natalie James as the secretary of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, following her sudden exit last year.
Divisions have opened up in the leadership of the UWU as elections approach, with national secretary Tim Kennedy backing a rank and file member for president in the upcoming election, rather than the incumbent, Jo-anne Schofield.
NSW Parliament has passed what the Minns Government claims is the "most significant" reform to the State's workers compensation scheme in a generation, heading off a projected 36% increase to employer premiums in part by raising the threshold for psychological injury claims.
Major players in the construction industry are rallying to stymie an urgent TWU application to use transport supply chain laws to pressure them as customers of concrete suppliers, ahead of talks in the FWC this morning.
A senior FWC member has tripled the compensation sought by a worker sacked after her mother called the employer to convey in "abrupt and firm" tones that it should stop insisting on documentary evidence of a close relative's sudden death before paying bereavement leave.
The NSW Minns Labor Government is closer to winning passage of controversial Workers Compensation amendments designed to rein in claims for psychological injuries, along with a bill making it easier for unions to inspect employers' digital work systems.
A power industry worker who invited a colleague to continue their verbal jousting "outside" and told his supervisor to "get f--ked too" has won his job back after the FWC found his actions out of character in circumstances where he faced significant family health issues and "banter" was part of the workplace culture.
A FWC full bench has canvassed the meanings of "sufficient interest" and "sufficiently representative" in upholding a challenge to the approval of a labour hire company's agreement, voted on entirely by casuals despite extending to permanents.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of an experienced electrician burned by a fireball, factoring in his failure to wear a face shield and rejecting his claim that "delirium" made him fudge a risk assessment.
