A council's desire to have a senior planning team member pass on his wisdom in-person provided reasonable business grounds to refuse his request to work at home for all but six days a month, the FWC has found.
In a significant ruling on parliamentary privilege, a full Federal Court has found that Hansard extracts should not have been used to support a bias claim against a Labor politician-turned-FWC-member weighing same-job, same-pay orders.
The FWC has ordered Amazon to reinstate a worker dismissed for inappropriate Slack messages, finding the company's "casual" approach to using the platform includes "frequent jokes, swearing and venting".
The FWC has endorsed AGL's grounds for rejecting a customer service consultant's flexible work request, but nevertheless ordered it to conduct a trial requiring her to attend the office for four hours on just 12 occasions over six months so she can continue to care for her incontinent, dementia-affected mother.
A FWC full bench has acknowledged its "deference" to a tribunal member's factual findings in upholding the reinstatement of a stevedore accused of telling a colleague he put his c-ck in their Subway sandwich, while already on a warning for showing pictures of bikini-clad female colleagues to co-workers.
Legislation to ease the FWC's surging workload and introduce procurement arrangements enabling the Albanese Government to prefer suppliers with enterprise agreements has passed federal parliament less than a month after its introduction.
In a significant ruling on applications to work from home, the FWC has agreed with a multinational company's claim that its payroll officer could not devote sufficient attention to "complex" tasks while caring for two children under five.
The House of Representatives has passed legislation to reduce the FWC's workload and introduce procurement arrangements enabling the Albanese Government to prefer suppliers with enterprise agreements, while the Greens have backed a motion to give the Senate just an hour to debate it before a final vote on Monday.
The FWC is seeking feedback by next Wednesday on a set of amendments to the tribunal's rules to accommodate applications and notices introduced by the Closing Loopholes legislation, while also fixing minor errors and boosting clarity.
The income and compensation caps for unfair dismissal claims are set to increase next Wednesday, along with filing fees for a range of other applications, while payday super will also take effect.
