The FWC has waved away as "self-inflicted" any financial and reputational harm caused to HR/IT and operations managers hastily sacked by a NDIS provider, pointing to the married couple's apparent purloining of the company's funds and numerous undeclared conflicts of interest as valid reasons for their dismissal.
A silk's report commissioned by Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth found no basis for allegations of "misbehaviour" by FWC President Adam Hatcher and Vice President Ingrid Asbury towards Commissioner Jennifer Hunt, according to Justice Hatcher, while the vice president is now seeking the commissioner's removal or suspension.
A sacked crane driver can proceed with his late dismissal challenge after the FWC found the blame lay squarely with his union for belatedly obtaining legal advice about which jurisdiction to file it in.
Legislation introduced this morning by the Albanese Government promises to reduce the FWC's "unsustainable" workload, with key measures including a bypass of a full Federal Court ruling that has increased the tribunal's burden.
The Albanese Government has heard the FWC's cry for help as it prepares to introduce legislation tomorrow aimed at putting the brakes on, and in some instances reversing the tribunal's AI-fuelled workload.
FWC Commissioner Jennifer Hunt's complaint that surfaced on Linked-In yesterday isn't the first, with the Commission revealing this evening that it counselled her after she raised an issue about another member two years ago, while she has also raised a further matter in recent weeks.
Most disability, home care, social and community services workers will from October next year be covered by a "vastly different" award providing pay rises of up to 27%, following yesterday's decision by a FWC expert panel considering gender undervaluation in highly-feminised sectors.
The FWC's annual wage review expert panel has today granted a below-inflation 4.75% rise in all award rates, after "regrettably" concluding it would not be "practicable or responsible" to order a larger increase in the current "uncertain" economic conditions.
An airline has succeeded in having a former manager's redundancy pay cut to zero after the FWC found his insistence on amending an intellectual property clause in his contract did not alter the fact that it offered him "objectively acceptable" alternative employment.
The FWC is set to make a same-job, same-pay order covering on-hire casual de-stuffers at an Aldi distribution centre that will see their 25% loading and any allowances paid on top of a "loaded" base rate paid to permanent workers.
