The Federal Court has ordered a sacked senior HR manager to pay his former employer $45,000 in costs on a party-basis, after it rejected his AI-infected, meritless, "doomed to fail" bid for a judicial review of two FWC rulings.
Victoria's Kourakis royal commission into the construction sector has appointed an acting assistant commissioner and already held closed hearings in order to gather confidential information, it revealed at its first official hearing today.
The FWC has ordered compensation for a daycare educator sacked after a child "sneakily" escaped into an outdoor play area and went unsupervised for 10 minutes.
A FWC full bench has for the first time considered whether non-parties to a dispute can appeal an arbitrated outcome, concluding that a peak employer body concerned about the implications of a classification decision satisfied the legislative definition of a "person aggrieved".
A serial-offending IR advisory business has drawn criticism from the FWC for setting "an unacceptably low bar", this time after it failed to check that it correctly filed a worker's unfair dismissal claim within the 21-day limit.
ASIC's pursuit of former Super Retail chief executive Anthony Heraghty over his alleged failure to disclose a relationship with the head of HR could flow through to influence how boards identify and manage personal conflicts of interest, says a leading commercial lawyer.
Five years after a judge delayed a trial over concerns that he could not properly assess witness credibility when evidence is given remotely, another judicial officer has hailed the technology as aiding the task because large courtroom screens mean reactions and responses "tend to be exaggerated, rather than minimised".
Treasury's latest intergenerational report, released this afternoon, predicts Australia will have a far older working-age population in the 2060s, while artificial intelligence is expected to help achieve its long-term productivity growth assumptions.
The FWC has declared the long-running Queensland Rail dispute resolved following a "substantial" and "intensive" undertaking, while strongly urging workers vote to accept seven in-principle deals rather than holding out for an intractable bargaining process.
The FWC has made it clear that it is not its role to protect the personal assets of directors, in dismissing a mining services contractor's request to escape paying $190,000 in redundancies.
