A newly-approved federal code of practice provides "practical guidance to employers" to help protect workers against workplace sexual harassment, according to workplace relations minister Murray Watt.
A transport company is to be referred to the FWO over its "alarming" indifference to its obligations as an employer, after an unfair dismissal case in which it exhibited "disregard" for the FWC before being ordered to pay $30,000 to a former worker sacked without warning.
The FWC has ruled an employer had a right to refuse to pay sick leave to a worker recently warned about his "particularly excessive" use of the entitlement, while finding it nevertheless "irrelevant" whether cosmetic surgery or a burst appendix explained his absence.
A mining truck driver's mobile phone use, detected by an infra-red driver alertness system, justified her dismissal, after what the FWC deemed to be a fair investigation process.
The FWC has confirmed that there are only two elements of the "broad" definition of a "worker" under anti-bullying legislation, in rejecting a challenge to an unpaid board member's eligibility to bring a claim.
Nine in 10 women responding to a major CPSU survey say it is "very important" to be able to work from home and those who do are more likely to be satisfied with their work-life balance, while the ACTU says Coalition plans to force public servants back to the office if it wins government will hurt productivity and women's job opportunities.
The MUA says it is making headway with a campaign to enshrine in agreements 10 days paid family and domestic violence "solidarity leave" to help family members "render assistance in times of crisis".
The ASU says lawyers at Maurice Blackburn are pressing ahead with a ban on recording billable hours today despite being stood down, while members are "outraged" at its continuing refusal to provide more than four days reproductive leave despite publicly campaigning for ten.
In what might stand as one of the last FWC cases relying on the High Court's 2022 Personnel decision to establish whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor, the tribunal has rejected a manager's claim that she maintained the same role at a fintech company despite resigning and signing a contractor agreement as part of a move to Canada.
A FWC full bench has found a presidential member denied two workers procedural fairness when he took the "precipitous step" of dismissing their general protections applications before they received his email warning he might do so because of their failure to lodge submissions in reply.
