A project manager who argued that putting a Ferrari badge on a Toyota "doesn't make it a Ferrari" can pursue an adverse action case after the FWC found his employer labelled him an independent contractor merely to facilitate his request for his pay to go into a trust account.
Ahead of McDonald's' first bargaining meeting to negotiate a national deal with unions, a full Federal Court has dismissed an employer-led review bid that sought to challenge the FWC's approach to making supported bargaining authorisations that covered its franchisees.
A refrigerated transport company had good reason to sack a driver who allowed more than $70,000 of ice cream to melt during a six-hour drive, the FWC has found, refusing to accept his blame-shifting for failing to reduce the temperature to the required setting.
A FWC full bench has overturned a finding that PM Anthony Albanese's post-election decision to pare back One Nation's staffing allocation amounted to a dismissal.
As a new team prepares to take over the helm of the NTEU, the FWC has approved a rule change that will enable more members to vote in future elections, in a decision delayed by an administrative error and the union's request to postpone it to avoid irregularities.
The FSU says it is embedding "trailblazing" AI clauses in agreements, as the FWC approves an Aware Super deal promising only a human will make key employment-related decisions, and another industry fund is seeking a variation that spells out its consultation obligations ahead of adopting the technology.
A senior FWC member has put Apple adherents on notice not to use its proprietary word processor Pages to file documents, observing that the tribunal has enough on its plate without wasting time "chasing down applicants" over inaccessible formats.
Aldi will be obliged to pay $26.3 million on top of $28.9 million it has already restored to 32,000 current and former workers it allegedly failed to pay for work before and after their shifts, under the proposed terms for settlement of a SDA class action, according to the union.
The Albanese Government has today revealed that it will introduce a new criminal offence for companies that fail to prevent modern slavery in their supply chains.
Google AI's unfounded suggestions that an unfair dismissal ruling set a "dangerous precedent" and established an "unsafe principle" highlight the technology's limitations, a FWC full bench has found today.
