In what stands as an object lesson in how not to handle performance reviews, the FWC has highlighted the role of "managerial cowardice" and a passive HR department while reinstating a senior academic who received an "exceeds expectations" score shortly before three colleagues formally complained about her conduct.
A former Tech One manager who rejected a "genuinely commercially-based" $2.2 million settlement of his "objectively untenable" $55 million general protections claim is now facing what is likely to be a seven-figure costs order, after a Federal Court ruling.
The FWC's longest-serving member has provided a detailed exposition of the tribunal's approach to suppression orders, reinforcing that it is not merely about "public understanding" of her reasons for finding that an employer did not force an experienced HR manager to resign after less than five months in the job.
The Albanese Government should get rid of awards and make a strengthened NES the sole source of minimum employment conditions for all industries, the HR Nicholls Society has told in the NES review.
As the ASU prepares to bargain for a major single interest multi-deal covering at least eight Melbourne councils, the FWC has rejected a bid for a supported bargaining authorisation covering two local government gardening service providers.
Electors perceived as "Trump-like" the Dutton Opposition's plans to axe 40,000 public sector jobs and scrap work from home for federal public servants, with the WFH policy fuelling views that the Liberals were "unsympathetic to the needs of women", according to a damning review of the Liberal Party's 2025 federal election campaign.
Forthcoming Victorian laws providing rights to work from home two days a week will apply to businesses big and small, according to Premier Jacinta Allan.
The mother of a young child had "understandable" reasons for wanting to make her part-time job completely remote so her partner could take up better opportunities interstate, but the FWC has found insufficient connection between her caring duties and her job to empower it to arbitrate the flexible work dispute.
