Platform companies Deliveroo, Menulog and Uber say they are embracing the Federal Government's consultations on the introduction of national minimum IR standards for the gig economy, but insist any changes must be tailor-made and leave room for choice.
An Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission employee seeking to combine working from home and carer's leave to avoid COVID-19 while he and his endometriosis-suffering wife undergo IVF treatment has failed to establish his circumstances are exceptional under the agency's agreement provisions.
A Victorian Police fingerprint expert has been reinstated after the FWC found her dismissal for "deceitfully" calling her detective husband's ex-lover during work hours both disproportionate and harsh in terms of its financial impact.
An employer had no basis for summarily dismissing a real estate employee who tested positive for COVID-19 five days after ignoring directions to wear a mask when inspecting the property of an aged care worker, the FWC has found.
A court has rebuffed a safety manager's attempt to unearth physical evidence that Watpac sacked him as a result of union pressure rather than for allegedly instigating anonymous threats to a CFMMEU delegate and his partner.
Resource sector employers have made an apparently unsuccessful attempt to have unions flesh-out the scope of their multi-employer bargaining proposal, while the peak body for direct marketing companies has renewed its longstanding sectoral deal.
IR advisor Employsure has failed to stop Workplace Express from accessing part of a manager's adverse action claim, after contending that it contained confidential information about a restructure that could give competitors an advantage.
As talks continue on the scope and form of a soon-to-be expanded multi-employer bargaining framework, Labor Senator Tony Sheldon says Qantas' IR arrangements are a "textbook case" for it and claims the airline's "game book" is also playing out in the mining sector.
A tribunal member, at the urging of a union, placed too much emphasis on employer Ausgrid's investigation rather than the conduct of workers accused of timesheet fraud, a FWC full bench has ruled.
The Albanese Government's multi-employer bargaining regime will focus on low-paid workers and will not permit sector-wide or industry-wide strikes, according to documents tabled in the Senate.
