A federal court judge has ordered a contractor and a customer to pay an employee $116,000 in compensation and penalties for targeting him with "h-mophobic and s-xualised statements", in "a very serious example of s-xual harassment at work".
A taxi driver is ineligible to make an unfair deactivation claim because he has greater bargaining power and more control over his work than gig workers, the FWC has ruled after closely examining legislative definitions of "digital labour platform" and "employee-like workers".
A 67-year-old manager's bid to squeeze his weekly hours into four days to pursue his dream of writing bestsellers is set to be assessed by the FWC, after a member found it met the statutory hurdle for flexible work requests.
Growth in private sector rates of pay excluding bonuses has eased to 3.2% a year in trend terms, well below the 4.6% rise in consumer prices fuelled by the Middle East war, according to new ABS data.
An ICT company will have to compensate a worker it immediately dismissed because she copied clients into an email announcing that she intended to resign.
Workplace s-xual harassment remains rife, with victims just as likely to be punished as perpetrators are to face employer disciplinary action, according to new Diversity Council data.
Oxfam workers are seeking to formalise a four-day week in their new enterprise agreement, after securing a trial in their previous deal, an Oxfam employee has told the parliamentary inquiry into the NES.
Workers should not think that independent contractors operate in some "unbridled utopia, free from all direction and control", a senior FWC member has observed in tossing out a psychologist's general protections case.
A deputy president has scathingly rebuked a Woolworths worker upset at a colleague suggesting he cover up his "plumber's crack" for bringing an unmeritorious general protections application, lamenting the lack of "effective disincentive for speculative claims" that are fuelling the FWC's "burgeoning caseload".
A senior early childhood teacher summarily dismissed after being told to be more tolerant of racist and N-zi views has won compensation of more than $41,000.
