Industrial action has ceased at hydrocarbons producer Inpex after it reached an in-principle agreement with the Offshore Alliance containing what the unions claim are "great" pay rises they claim will set the standard for negotiations underway for a new Shell Prelude agreement, while they have credited the FWC's interest-based bargaining efforts with hastening a resolution.
In the first fully contested Federal Court case to consider new s-xual harassment protections in the Fair Work Act, a judge has relied heavily on a FIFO apprentice's dinnertime revelation to her parents that her supervisor asked her for a "bl-w job" to find he s-xually harassed her.
Australia's IR system requires a "complete overhaul", One Nation leader Pauline Hanson told a National Press Club luncheon today, while promising to sack S-x Discrimination Commissioner Anna Cody and Human Rights Commission President Hugh de Kretser if her party wins government.
ARN Media Limited will pay sacked KIIS FM broadcaster Kyle Sandilands more than $12 million and provide further support of $1.5 million to settle his general protections and breach of contract claims, but the parallel case brought by his co-host, Jackie 'O' Henderson, remains on foot, it told the ASX today.
A recruiter has failed to win $50,000 compensation from Bluescope Steel for allegedly sacking him following his complaints about being bullied by its HR team, after a judge took into account that he had previously lied to the FWC and "embellished" his résumé.
The "unprecedented" AI-driven rise in the FWC's caseload has now pushed average clearance rates up from less than four weeks to more than six weeks, and while the Commission is taking action to respond, it concedes it would be easier to "catch the wind" than to curb the technology.
The Fair Work Act's provisions that prescribe its geographic outer limits might serve as excellent bedtime reading for insomniacs, a FWC member has suggested after navigating them.
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.
