A FWC member has thrown out the dispute application of a disability support worker who showed an "abject disregard" for the tribunal and deliberately flouted its direction not to contact a former client.
In an "industry-first", a newly-approved union agreement covering editorial employees at news publications including Crikey and The Mandarin explicitly prohibits AI from replacing human employees and requires all output to have human oversight.
The FWC has warned the CFMEU against a "burger with the lot" approach to pressing its objections to a proposed construction industry deal, after rejecting an employer's complaints that the union had no involvement in bargaining and has no members covered.
The FWC has rejected CEPU claims that Queensland Rail will use data from its new GPS-linked vehicle management system to performance-manage employees who brake harshly and accelerate or corner too rapidly.
After a FWC full bench finding that bullying must be assessed within a "spectrum of seriousness", a member has affirmed in redetermining a paramedic's challenge to a 350km transfer that his treatment of a subordinate constituted serious misconduct.
The FAAA says it will no longer allow the "effluxion of time to be used as a weapon against workers", after protracted efforts to confirm a regional airline's cabin crew remained in favour of a majority support determination backfired in the FWC.
Unions have doubled down on objections to an Australian Industry Group draft working-from-home clause proposed for the clerks award, claiming it will create a two-tiered system, confound both employers and workers and violates new penalty rates protections.
The Federal Court has found that disputes about same-job, same-pay protected rates should come before the FWC in the first instance, while it has agreed to stay court proceedings until the Commission determines a SJSP dispute involving Workpac on-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine.
The NSW IRC is today livestreaming the first day of a lengthy hearing to determine a work value claim on behalf of public hospital doctors seeking to bridge an alleged 30% pay gap, in what their union says is the biggest case in the tribunal's history.
