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".
Queensland's Crisafulli Government has finally launched its review of the former Miles Government's Respect at Work anti-discrimination changes, just weeks after it defeated an Opposition attempt to re-launch a positive duty for employers to prevent s-xual harassment.
An academic says FWC decisions this week, ordering Uber to reactivate drivers accused of sexual misconduct and touting, highlight growing scrutiny of platform decision‑making, with the tribunal finding that relying on untested complaints fell short of the Briginshaw standard and breached the deactivation code.
A Fair Work Commission member has offered a "simpler" approach to determining whether workers' employment ended at the employer's initiative in cases involving alleged abandonment of employment.
BHP's Pilbara port operations are facing the real prospect of grinding to a halt, after employees in its key iron ore export hub overwhelmingly voted in favour of industrial action, following six months of what they claim have been "fruitless" enterprise negotiations.
NT Corrections has for the third time failed to halt prison officer strikes, with the FWC finding that the industrial action is protected and the UWU has complied with its assurances that it would protect the safety of prisoners.
