The FWC's bid to develop an award clause removing impediments to working from home looks to be a slow burn, with a hearing likely next June following a possible employee survey.
The FWC has granted separate extensions of time to two workers challenging their dismissals, after attaching significant weight to the deaths of close family members.
Queensland's Miles Government has secured the passage of legislation to introduce a broad positive duty to eliminate not only sexual harassment and harassment on the basis of s-x, but discrimination and "other objectionable conduct" as far as possible.
The Albanese Government has today introduced legislation to tie its funding for the 15% work value pay rise for early childhood educators to limits on childcare operator fee increases, to ensure the funding is passed on to workers.
The FWC has extended time by seven hours for a care worker to lodge her unfair dismissal claim after a loose power cord stymied a paid agent's "imprudent and careless" late night filing efforts.
Unions are calling on Tasmania's Rockliff Liberal Government to boost its investment in public sector pay, as a report reveals public servants in the State are earning nearly $5700 less than their mainland counterparts and are worse off than 13 years ago.
NSW nurses and midwives have defied a tribunal's anti-strike orders, telling its members the State Government has left them with "no choice but to fight".
A FWC full bench led by president Adam Hatcher has overturned a two-month suspension of ETU strikes against Transgrid, taking the opportunity to lay out the correct approach to assessing safety commitments when considering whether protected industrial action should be stopped or suspended.
A shareholding employee sacked by his "toxic" family business for raising his voice at a salesperson has won compensation but missed out on reinstatement due in part to his court bid to wind up the company.
