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Pandemic produced "peculiar" labour efficiency pattern: PC

The "labour productivity bubble" that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic can provide lessons for the future, and hybrid working can be more beneficial to productivity than wholly working from home or the workplace, according to a new Productivity Commission report.

Overwhelming majority of WFH requests approved: Study

Just 6% of clerical workers who seek WFH arrangements are knocked back by their employer, according to a new Swinburne University study commissioned by the FWC as part of the work from home test case.

Zero WFH no basis for rejecting alternative job: FWC

A retrenched educator who rejected an alternative role because she wanted to keep working from home at least a day a week has lost her severance entitlements, after the FWC found she did not have a formal right to maintain her flexible arrangements.

No remote role for psychologist seeking safe harbour

A psychologist who fled Darwin for regional NSW in "disturbing" circumstances has failed to persuade the FWC that her employer lacked reasonable business grounds to deny her request to continue servicing clients on Zoom.

Bench raises heat on employers over flex requests

Employers who refuse a flexible work request have to do their own homework on the ramifications and spell it out clearly in writing, a FWC full bench has held in ordering a school to accommodate a teacher's wish to temporarily work part-time in an executive role while she manages her return from parental leave.

WFH resignation a refusal to accept productivity test: FWC

In a decision laying bare one business's struggle to balance productivity and work-from-home arrangements, the FWC has concluded that it did not force a new father to resign when it told him to return to the office and increase his output.

AiG pushing Coalition for root and branch review of Act

The Australian Industry Group is urging the Coalition to conduct a "fundamental review" of the Fair Work Act in its first term if it wins the federal election, to identify changes to take to the 2028 election, while the ACTU has released legal advice obtained on the party's public sector WFH policy prior to its sudden backflip.

FWC throws out "Nabbed" worker's flex dispute

The FWC has held that it has no power under the Fair Work Act's flexible work dispute provisions to deal with a National Australia Bank worker's challenge to the cancellation of her WFH flexibility arrangement after she allegedly failed to comply with its terms.

Opposition retreats further on public service WFH position

The Coalition has reversed its stance on working from home in the federal public sector, while also shifting its position on slashing the APS workforce by 41,000, saying it will now be achieved over five years by natural attrition and hiring freezes, but the CPSU is warning this will still have a "devastating" effect on services.

Accord possible in crucial WFH test case: AiG

The Ai Group has hinted at a potential "consensus" in a FWC-initiated case with economy-wide implications to consider inserting WFH provisions in the clerks award, while expressing concern that it would be "unfair" to require submissions ahead of results of a survey on the issue, with the tribunal now persuaded to ditch the deadline and hold a conference.

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