An employment court has found that an employer did not breach a worker's right to disconnect when it pressed her to respond to "unreasonable" out-of-hours communications that included TikTok videos about her social life, in the first ruling on the untested provisions.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has refused to stay the deregistration of one auditor and suspension of another found to fallen short in their duties to an embattled HSU branch, concluding that no weight should be given to their "desire for reputational repair" while their appeals are heard.
The Victorian lower house has passed legislation targeting unregistered unions, after RAFFWU, the Greens and the Liberal Party accused Labor of factional favours and of undermining freedom of association, while the State's workplace protection legislation has passed Parliament.
A Federal Court judge is using a McDonald's class action to test the ability of AI to transform the way courts collate and analyse vast quantities of information, following a speech in which he urged a "far more ambitious" approach to harnessing the technology.
The nursing union is prosecuting an aged care provider it accuses of over-counting the "care minutes" that are a key part of the Albanese Government's reforms to lift standards in the sector.
A judge has urged courts to be "far more ambitious" in harnessing AI, potentially by developing tools to guide and synthesise cases filed by self-represented applicants, to analyse discovery material, and to change the machinery for using expert knowledge.
A worker's one-day-late general protections claim can proceed, after the FWC accepted that the AMWU's withdrawal from representing him just two days before the filing deadline left him "temporarily incapacitated".
A franchisor chief executive found in June to have engaged in "predatory and grooming" conduct towards a female employee 40 years his junior has now been ordered to pay her more than $72,000 in damages.
The FWC has temporarily increased the vehicle-related allowances in the SCHADS and aged care awards to compensate workers for the fuel price surge from the Middle East conflict, but has declined to make the change in 39 other awards.
