Extend family and domestic violence provisions to include perpetrators beyond immediate family, weigh whether to expand the employee-like worker framework to include journalists and performers, and form a tripartite committee of unions and employers to report annually on emerging IR issues, the Closing Loopholes review's final report recommends.
The Federal Court has granted property advisory business Savills a 20-year suppression order, after finding publication of stayed sexual harassment and discrimination allegations would undermine the effectiveness of its earlier orders.
A Federal Court AI symposium has heard the legal profession needs a nationally consistent regulatory approach, while one of the most senior members of England and Wales' judiciary warned another forum the technology will inevitably become a "judicial decision-maker" in some fields.
In what might be the first FWC costs order for failing to heed warnings against proceeding with AI-assisted cases afflicted by "unfixable" flaws, the FWC has taken the "very rare step" of ordering a worker to pay part of his former employer's costs of defending his "doomed" unfair dismissal claim.
The NSW IRC had to evacuate at the start of a speech by a new member likened to a beam of sunshine with a collaborative approach that helped keep the State's lights on, but when the fire truck departed, he said a supermarket job ignited his interest in IR.
In a significant decision on calculating compensation for unfairly dismissed workers, a FWC full bench has held that the tribunal should not have reduced a worker's payout to factor in income received months after her anticipated earnings period.
The ETU is accusing BHP managers of breaching organisers' entry rights at a meeting of members at Port Hedland today, and will challenge the company's actions in the Federal Court, while the company contends the organisers "loudly interrupted" a crib room and "became aggressive".
The Federal Court says a first-of-its-kind research partnership with the University of NSW will shape approaches to unrepresented litigants across the justice system, with one academic pointing out that effective responses "depend on a good diagnosis".
Former South Australian supreme court chief justice and solicitor-general Chris Kourakis will head up the royal commission into crime and misconduct in the Victorian construction industry promised by new premier Ben Carroll upon rising to the top job late last month.
