A tribunal member has torn up his own certificate sending an adverse action case to court after accepting he prematurely found that efforts to resolve the matter had been exhausted.
Justice Ingmar Taylor, the president of the NSW Industrial Court that has been re-established this month by the Minns Labor Government, has told a ceremony to celebrate its rebirth that the recent scrapping of the former government's public sector wages cap reinstates the "broad and unfettered power" to arbitrate disputes bestowed on the institution by the State IR Act's architect, Jeff Shaw.
An employer that sacked a worker absent on sick leave via an afternoon email has failed to establish she missed the deadline for filing a general protections claim, after the FWC held that she had no obligation to read it until she checked her messages the next day.
A major employer has for the second time in a year been ordered to reinstate a worker after the FWC again identified fatal flaws in its investigation processes.
The FWC has laid bare the difficulty of running what amount to underpayment cases against universities, finding in a union-run matter that not only did the employer have no system in place to reliably record hours but that the tribunal lacked the power to order compensation anyway.
The ASU and group of Victorian councils are lining up to oppose an attempt by the CFMEU's construction and general division Victorian branch to represent local government workers in enterprise bargai
An employer has failed to win a stay on a FWC decision knocking back its request to be represented by a lawyer, which would have delayed an underpayments case, after a senior member found its agreement only allows representation for those initiating disputes.
The FWC is seeking feedback on an implementation plan it has released today for its new powers to provide remedies for gig workers who have been unfairly deactivated and transport workers who have had their contracts unfairly terminated, while it has allocated a deputy president to oversee those areas.
The IEU has today filed a supported bargaining application with the FWC to push for a 25% pay rise for teachers in more than 100 NSW community-based preschools, arguing it is a sector lacking HR and IR expertise that needs "stewardship and support" to facilitate talks.
Legislation introduced recently to Queensland's Parliament imposes a positive duty that goes beyond the Respect@Work model, adds new protected attributes to the Anti-Discrimination Act and improves protections for workers assaulted on the job, but the State union peak body is disappointed it continues to permit religious bodies to discriminate in employment.
