The TWU is hoping a consent position reached with DoorDash and Uber Eats for a "world-leading" hourly-rates safety net will prompt the FWC to include the agreed pay and conditions in a minimum standards order for the industry.
The FWC has made its first "community of interest" determination for a closing power station, clearing the way for displaced workers to be supported by an Energy Industry Jobs Plan.
A four-member FWC full bench has formally put on hold a review of the right to disconnect provisions, due to a paucity of case law, but recent commentary by tribunal president Adam Hatcher and leading academic lawyer Andrew Stewart indicate the jury is still out on the reasons for the litigation deficit and the impacts of the reforms.
Shadow IR minister Tim Wilson has made it clear that he is some way from releasing any Coalition IR policy, but has nevertheless indicated that it must address AI's looming "reset" to the way people work and underlined that he strongly favours WFH and workplace flexibility, after the disastrous pre-poll stance earlier this year.
A court has ordered a labour hire business to pay its former GM a profit share of more than $360,000 after she resigned in protest at not receiving it.
WorkPac is seeking in a hearing this afternoon to convince the Federal Court to stay a MEU bid to declare same-job, same-pay protected rates for on-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine, until the FWC has settled the labour supplier's related SJSP dispute.
The FWC has ruled that Woodside's agreement does not prevent it sending offshore platform employees to work in Perth when a cyclone hits, but doubts remain about whether such a direction is lawful and reasonable.
Victorian employers would need to give employees two weeks' written notice before introducing workplace surveillance under proposed laws that have won in-principle support from the Allan Government, which also this week vowed to offer clearer advice on the use of medicinal cannabis in the workplace.
The FWC has backed Woolworths' summary sacking of a 63-year-old manager found to have s-xually harassed a 29-year-old colleague when he sent her a red lipstick kiss emoji and texted "I love you".
On-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine who late last year won same-job, same-pay orders did not qualify for any portion of an annual bonus paid to the host's employees, the FWC has held, while separately finding the mine must pay the full incentive to its part-time direct employees, and those on unpaid leave or workers compensation.
