A five-member FWC full bench has wound up its "targeted" review of modern awards with a report acknowledging that while a "lack of consensus" meant it could not determine key issues, it will now kickstart consideration of six "priority" matters that include simplifying the retail award, developing a working-from-home term in the clerks award and reviewing fixed-term contract provisions in higher education awards.
The FWC has granted extra time for a worker to challenge a dismissal she alleges came about while she underwent intensive cancer treatment, with no notification other than a request to hand over her work on her employer's WeChat group chat.
The FWC has rejected a law firm's argument that a legal assistant abandoned his job, finding its director sacked him in a text message he composed with the assistance of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.
A FWC full bench has ruled on the agreed terms to be included in an intractable bargaining workplace determination under revised Closing Loopholes 2 Act criteria.
A tribunal has granted a family a five-year exemption from anti-discrimination laws to only engage male support workers to assist their non-verbal son, who has a severe to profound intellectual disability, after he refused to accept directions from "even very experienced" female support workers.
The Federal Court has this afternoon rejected a Qantas bid for a finding that flight crew union the AIPA unreasonably withheld permission to allocate newly-recruited pilots to its A380 super-jumbos.
A charity ordered to compensate a retrenched financial analyst has been reminded by the FWC that consultation involves "not merely telling a worker" they have been made redundant months after deciding to restructure their team.
In a significant decision on FWC powers, a court has found that the Commission can dig into a university's finding that an academic plagiarised a student's work to establish whether it breached its agreement's disciplinary processes.
An employer's failure to properly communicate the result of an investigation to a worker accused of an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate increased his discomfort at work, but did not force him to resign, the FWC has found.
