A four-member FWC full bench has formally put on hold a review of the right to disconnect provisions, due to a paucity of case law, but recent commentary by tribunal president Adam Hatcher and leading labour law academic Andrew Stewart indicate the jury is still out on the reasons for the litigation deficit and the impacts of the reforms.
A court has ordered a labour hire business to pay its former GM a profit share of more than $360,000 after she resigned in protest at not receiving it.
WorkPac is seeking in a hearing this afternoon to convince the Federal Court to stay a MEU bid to declare same-job, same-pay protected rates for on-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine, until the FWC has settled the labour supplier's related SJSP dispute.
The FWC has ruled that Woodside's agreement does not prevent it sending offshore platform employees to work in Perth when a cyclone hits, but doubts remain about whether such a direction is lawful and reasonable.
The NSW Minns Labor Government has introduced what the Business Council claims is the "most interventionist AI and digital regulation" for employers in the country, while separately reviving a bid to lift the workers' compensation total impairment threshold for psychological injuries.
Victorian employers would need to give employees two weeks' written notice before introducing workplace surveillance under proposed laws that have won in-principle support from the Allan Government, which also this week vowed to offer clearer advice on the use of medicinal cannabis in the workplace.
A senior FWC member has identified a paid agent's apparent "lack of familiarity" with Commission processes as a reason for refusing a worker's request for representation to defend his dismissal for alleged time-theft.
The NSW Parliament has passed stripped-back workers' compensation reforms following serious backlash over a Minns Government plan to increase the whole-person impairment threshold from 15% to 31% for employees suffering psychological injuries.
The UWU says it has won pay rises of up to $30,000 a year for nearly 700 on-hire warehouse workers through five same-job, same-pay applications tellingly unresisted by employers, while the SDA is now embedding SJSP clauses in its supply chain agreements.
A court has backed Ernst & Young's ousting of a senior partner charged with assault over a bar confrontation, while on a warning for allegedly telling a colleague at a Christmas party he wanted to sleep with her and that most of his affairs were with married women.
