The proportion of employees working from home in 2023 has hardly eased since the COVID-19 lockdown, with 35% of workers doing some WFH and 15% performing most of their hours away from the office, according to the latest HILDA report.
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.
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.
The FWC has found the ATO failed to respect the ASU's role as the representative of a legally blind worker called into a meeting to discuss a request the union made on his behalf for a 100% WFH flexibility arrangement, to avoid the need to take public transport.
A model working from home clause in a key award should avoid contributing to remote workers working "long and unsociable hours", address employer provision of equipment and apply to all employees, according to a Centre for Future Work report.
A senior HR manager has failed to establish that Uniqlo forced her to resign by rejecting her requests to return two days a week after parental leave, the FWC noting she was "clearly aware" of her right to lodge a flexible work dispute.
The Greens will use their balance of power in the Senate to seek to amend the Fair Work Act to give workers the right to work at least two days a week from home if it is "practical and reasonable", echoing Victoria's recent policy proposal.
Victoria's Allan Government says it is considering using the State's equal opportunity laws to enshrine a two-day-per-week work-from-home "right" for public and private sector employees, while an IR expert suggests questions around its enforceability might be beside the point.
A worker who insisted on toiling from his hospital bed almost immediately after bowel surgery has failed to overturn his dismissal for repeatedly flouting a direction to work within ordinary hours.
