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The case billed as the first substantive test of the FWC's new gig economy unfair contracts powers has been quietly binned, after a self-represented Uber driver discontinued it earlier this month.
A FWC member has taken into account an experienced lawyer's stray comma, an apparent formatting problem and the FWC's tardy notification of an issue in absolving a worker of any blame for her 35-day-late unfair dismissal application.
A FWC full bench majority has quashed a member's refusal to grant an intractable bargaining declaration for highly-paid deputies at a NSW coal mine, finding he wrongly considered that the tribunal's arbitration powers must not be "lightly engaged".
The NSW Minns Labor Government has introduced what the Business Council claims is the "most interventionist AI and digital regulation" for employers in the country, while separately reviving a bid to lift the workers' compensation total impairment threshold for psychological injuries.
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.
A senior FWC member has identified a paid agent's apparent "lack of familiarity" with Commission processes as a reason for refusing a worker's request for representation to defend his dismissal for alleged time-theft.
The NSW Parliament has passed stripped-back workers' compensation reforms following serious backlash over a Minns Government plan to increase the whole-person impairment threshold from 15% to 31% for employees suffering psychological injuries.
The UWU says it has won pay rises of up to $30,000 a year for nearly 700 on-hire warehouse workers through five same-job, same-pay applications tellingly unresisted by employers, while the SDA is now embedding SJSP clauses in its supply chain agreements.
A court has backed Ernst & Young's ousting of a senior partner charged with assault over a bar confrontation, while on a warning for allegedly telling a colleague at a Christmas party he wanted to sleep with her and that most of his affairs were with married women.
The FWC has ordered Uber to reactivate a driver removed from its platform and for the parties to confer about lost pay, finding Uber's arguments "plainly ludicrous" and "misguided" and its IR Lead's evidence of little value.
