High Court rebuffs academic pay challenge; "No guarantee" lawyers will respond before deadline, says FWC; ABC presenter free to contest sacking; and Bench rejects consolidation order appeal.
In a decision further expanding the breadth of flexibility requests, a senior FWC member has "with some hesitation" found that a warehouse's ban on mobile phones falls under the statutory definition of a "working arrangement" that can be changed.
The Federal Government should replace casual loading with an "unpredictability" bonus for those in genuinely insecure work, expand coverage of the National Employment Standards to capture many currently classified as casuals, and change the definition of "employee-like", according to the Centre for Future Work's David Peetz.
The FSU is pushing the Commonwealth Bank for agreement-enshrined limits on its ability to monitor workers and use the data, claiming outdated laws are otherwise giving employers "free rein" to monitor every keystroke or conversation and keep tabs on toilet breaks.
FWC to make rare costs order after drug dealing admission; Sacking over flight delay unfair; Text message proves worker resigned; and FIFO worker dismissed when employer stopped paying for flights.
A judge's associate has won her bid to have her 10-years-late s-xual harassment and discrimination complaint against her former boss heard, after the Federal Court found she would have believed she would have no chance of his being held accountable before the High Court issued the Dyson Heydon apology.
The FWC has dismissed a UFU bid to have it arbitrate a proposed income protection allowance, finding the union's practice of raising matters with Fire Rescue Victoria's people and culture executive director failed to invoke the dispute resolution procedure.
The FWC has ordered quarrelling parties to refrain from using artificial intelligence tools in their communications, to avoid unnecessarily "lengthy" and "accusatory" AI-prepared emails.
The AMOU has failed to persuade the FWC that a greenfields deal covering deck officers should be rejected because of a demarcation "side-deal" made with the AWU half a century ago.
The FWC has upheld Westpac's sacking of a veteran loan manager found to have accepted payments from customers and misused WhatsApp, with the tribunal rejecting his claims that it carried out a sham investigation in retaliation for his "whistleblowing".
