The National Construction Industry Forum has today unanimously endorsed a reform blueprint for the building and construction industry that pushes for the Albanese Government to give the FWC and FWO dispute resolution and enforcement powers.
With the FWC seeking feedback by early next month on whether to hold off on reviewing its insertion of right to disconnect terms into awards, a leading employment and IR barrister and former critic of the legislation says the lack of test cases is "remarkable".
A court has found that a self-represented worker who drafted her submissions with assistance from artificial intelligence, which generated non-existent authorities, should not be subject to a security of costs order, despite the additional expenses the employer allegedly incurred.
The FWC has reinstated a "careless" Qube stevedore accused of telling a colleague he put his c-ck in their Subway sandwich and calling another a c-nt, while already on a warning for showing pictures of bikini-clad female colleagues to male co-workers.
The ANMF has put new steps in place after an industrial officer failed to return his expired entry permit and "inadvertently" continued to rely on it, while the FWC has issued a new one on the condition he refreshes his training.
A MEU prompt has spurred a host employer subject to same-job, same-pay orders to fulfil its statutory obligation to tell the FWC about a recently-engaged labour-supplier.
Unfair deactivation applications will largely follow unfair dismissal case law because both statutes use the same language, the Fair Work Commission has held.
A pilots' union will weigh into a tussle over the Flying Kangaroo's alleged ditching of an A380 captain's exclusive parking arrangements near Sydney Airport, after the FWC rejected the airline's contention it cannot intervene as a "third party" in a member's agreement dispute.
The ETU's WA branch has secured the first agreement in the State covering a green energy facility in a transition hotspot, and says it proves that the shift to renewables does not have to cost workers their pay and conditions.
The FWC has lambasted a law firm that over-ruled its client and filed her unfair sacking application in the wrong jurisdiction, then took an unreasonably long time to file it correctly, some 24 days late.
