A road crew member's pursuit of payment for travel time between his accommodation and remote sites has produced a clear list of winners and losers, after the FWC confirmed the employer's view that whoever is behind the wheel on the way 'home' is working while their co-worker passengers are not.
A Sydney University lecturer sacked for superimposing a swastika on a posted image of an Israeli flag has nominally won his job back, pending the result of the institution's appeal against a finding that his 2019 dismissal breached its agreement's intellectual freedom clause.
A tribunal member has thrown out a lawyer's discrimination case, accusing him of becoming a "serial pest" after he filed multiple discrimination claims against employers for failing to hire him, including a recent matter in which he claimed "very attractive and beautiful" interviewers humiliated him.
A new report recommends creating specific Fair Work Act protections for gig workers in the care sector and reforming the NDIS and aged care funding and regulation models that "reward businesses that avoid the costs and responsibilities of directly employing personal care and support workers".
The NSW IRC has rejected a senior public servant's bid to suppress her suspension for alleged corrupt conduct, holding to the notion of open justice while questioning why she failed to make the application earlier.
The Federal Court has today reversed a judge's finding that a CFMMEU organiser directed a "disgusting" homophobic slur towards a construction project's safety advisor, while it also axed a personal payment order against him.
The MBA is today calling on the Albanese Government to give a firm undertaking to exclude industries outside the gig-economy before introducing legislation targeting employee-like forms of work, after IR Minister Tony Burke sought to hose down concerns it leaves the door open for a far broader remit.
A male doctor has lost his bid to join to his s-x discrimination case a female ER manager who applied for a personal safety intervention order against him.
Optus has failed in its bid to overturn a finding that short-changing workers' long service leave entitlements when they leave the telco might count as a continuing offence under Victoria's LSL legislation, potentially leaving it to clock-up daily fines until it rectified the alleged issue.
The ASU says it has secured big wins in a newly-approved Qantas deal after the Flying Kangaroo agreed to backdated 3% annual pay rises, an additional 3.6% from last week for a majority, greater roster stability and no outsourcing of members' ground handling work, though it will shift about 850 "senior professionals" onto individual contracts.
