The FWC has refused to reduce a worker's redundancy payout because the role the employer offered, after outsourcing the company's HR functions, would have paid less and required her to work in the office an additional day each week, despite the informality of her WFH arrangement.
After the FWC sought feedback about how it should proceed with retail award variation applications following the passage of Albanese Government legislation that circumvented a key element of one of the cases, the tribunal has acceded to a bid by retailers to also consider submissions on the effect of the recent Federal Court ruling on underpayments by Coles and Woolworths.
Consultation on the Albanese Government's plan to ban non-competes from 2027 has revealed employers' use of "cascading" restraint clauses is significantly hindering worker mobility even when their enforceability is questionable, according to Assistant Productivity and Competition Minister Andrew Leigh.
Labour hire company Skilled has appealed against a Federal Court ruling upholding FWC deputy president and former Labor MP Terri Butler's refusal to stand aside from hearing a same-job, same-pay case due to apprehended bias, despite her calling such on-hire arrangements a "rort" in parliamentary debate.
A Victorian corruption watchdog operative's "reckless and unsafe" close pursuit of a Mercedes fleeing a minor accident warranted his dismissal, the FWC has ruled.
The FWC has refused a bid for a three-month suspension of industrial action at a major aluminium smelter, finding that it would hinder bargaining, and that the AWU had already made significant concessions to ensure that the plant would remain operational.
A leading employment and IR barrister says the four-day working week, working from home and the right to disconnect are part of an unavoidable reorganisation of working hours that is set to become "the big issue of our time".
A worker failed to provide evidence that demonstrated that she sought a compressed work week to care for her partner and grandson, and that those needs related to her age, the FWC has found, ruling her flexible work arrangement request invalid.
Fast-growing HR and recruitment platform Employment Hero made a senior technical writer redundant after it replaced the content he produced for its online "help centre" with "automated workflows and AI", but the FWC has declined to extend time to allow him to pursue his unfair dismissal claim.
The absence of a definitive test to discharge the reverse onus in adverse action cases, particularly in those involving multiple decision-makers, "is a very unsatisfactory state of affairs and needs to be cleaned up", silk Marc Felman told the Federal Court's recent annual employment law seminar, with a nod to the judges in attendance.
