$110K for reinstated mineworker who didn't look for work; ASU reiterates bid for 35% pay hike; First public hearings for Kourakis Royal Commission; Coalition pledges to scrap NZEA; FWC varies SJSP order to include new employer; and Gaudron honoured.
Growth in AI-aided complaints is clogging-up the Human Rights Commission and increasing delays, even though many of the claims are found to not warrant further investigation.
The FWC has recommended a university put a proposed academic workload model to a ballot despite finding it had not been developed in line with its enterprise agreement, while also declining to require the employer to apply it from 2024 as intended.
The FWC has backed an employer's refusal to grant an employee with caring responsibilities' request to work flexibly outside its peak operating hours, finding the proposed "bespoke arrangement" unreasonable.
The FWC has allowed a six-days-late general protections claim to proceed after accepting the delay partly resulted from domestic violence and the applicant's daughter attempting to take her own life, in a decision anonymised because of the "sensitive and confidential" nature of its details.
The Federal Government cannot leave it to under-resourced courts and tribunals like the FWC to tackle the "wickedly hard problem" of dealing with artificial intelligence and must provide leadership and funding to work towards a harmonised approach, according to Greens leader David Shoebridge.
It would be "reckless" for the Federal Government to establish a procurement framework that favours companies with union agreements before Victoria's royal commission into the construction sector is completed, according to the Business Council.
Tugboat operator Svitzer Australia must pay $15,000 damages to a former port manager sacked because its national HR manager perceived him as "not grateful enough" about efforts to ensure his continuing employment during a restructure.
A manager has failed to convince the FWC that she had no choice but to resign, after she chose not to engage in mediation with the chief executive or pursue a formal complaint process.
The Queensland IRC has upheld a government agency's refusal of a senior manager's flexible work request, finding it "particularly unjustifiable" given she supervised 32 workers and sought to be absent during core working hours.
