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DEI advisor forced to resign: Tribunal

A DEI specialist found by the FWC to have been left with no option but to resign claims power company Endeavour Energy directed her to sideline an Indigenous man she selected to chair a NAIDOC week event, so that its head of organisational development could host it to "raise her professional profile".


Deal permits anti-hooning data capture, feedback: FWC

The FWC has rejected CEPU claims that Queensland Rail will use data from its new GPS-linked vehicle management system to performance-manage employees who brake harshly and accelerate or corner too rapidly.


HR wouldn't have saved unfair sacking: FWC

Two food delivery service founders have won more than $150,000 in compensation after their sacking by a company chair whose "total disregard" for procedural fairness made it unlikely he would be swayed by HR advice.


$12K blowback for sewage worker

A Melbourne Water employee's challenge to his sacking has backfired after a court rejected his contract-breach case and ordered him to repay $12,000 in "reverse-engineered" car mileage claims.


"Lawyer" gets second referral to regulator

An underpaying café owner who claims to hold a law degree has for the second time run afoul of a court during proceedings involving the FWO, with a judge deciding to again refer her to a legal profession regulator after finding it "difficult to reconcile" her supposed qualifications with the tenor of her oral and written submissions.


Government opts for light-touch approach to AI

The Albanese Government has retreated from proposed mandatory "guardrails" in its national AI policy released today, relying instead on existing regulators to report any legislative gaps to the newly-formed AI Safety Institute.


PSA industrial officer not sacked over complaint: Court

A PSA South Australia industrial officer who claimed the union decided against extending her contract because she complained about a bullying colleague has lost her adverse action claim.


New shadow minister in Victoria

Brad Rowswell is the new Victorian shadow IR minister, after the weekend reshuffle by leader Jess Wilson.


FWC rekindles pregnant worker's job at Amazon

An Amazon on-hire worker has been reinstated and awarded almost $15,000 after a FWC member speculated that her threat to go to the tribunal over the reaction to announcing her pregnancy prompted her employer to "circle the proverbial wagons".


Misconduct warranted ambo's relocation: Tribunal

After a FWC full bench finding that bullying must be assessed within a "spectrum of seriousness", a member has affirmed in redetermining a paramedic's challenge to a 350km transfer that his treatment of a subordinate constituted serious misconduct.


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