A High Court majority has today deemed Uber drivers' fares for performing driving work to be wages for the purpose of NSW payroll tax legislation, in a ruling that might have implications for efforts to extend the IR system's regulation of platforms and gig workers.
A new Bill introduced by the Minns Government will create same-job, same-pay protections for council workers employed under labour hire arrangements in NSW, who fall outside the federal regime.
An employer's clumsy and disorganised management practices rather than discrimination led to it giving a female employee just a few hours' notice before a job interview while her male colleagues had days to prepare, and it compounded its poor practice by then forgetting to tell her she failed to win the role, a tribunal has found.
NSW Shadow IR Minister James Wallace has retained his portfolio in a reshuffle this week, while Susan Carter joins the Opposition frontbench as Shadow Attorney-General.
Labor will release legislation for a wide-ranging labour hire licensing scheme within 100 days of its return at the March election, Minns Government IR Minister Sophie Cotsis promised today.
Thomas Costa says his first priority as the new leader of Unions NSW will be campaigning against One Nation's "anti-worker" and "incredibly offensive" policies in the lead-up to the State election in March next year.
The Minns Government has appointed barrister and Discrimination Law and Practice co-author Bronwyn Byrnes to the NSW IRC, saying she will help manage an anticipated workload increase driven by bullying, harassment and workers compensation reforms.
The NSW Industrial Court has found that a worker who started out as a "volunteer trainee" had been an employee and should have been paid, because he worked regularly and "meaningfully contributed" to the business.
A NSW IRC full bench has upheld a ruling that a sacked interpreter breached a Commission practice note by failing to seek leave to file AI-generated material that then turned out to be inaccurate, warning that unrepresented applicants cannot expect leniency after such transgressions.
The NSW IRC has welcomed a new member who "literally wrote the book" on IR laws covering owner-drivers and certain gig workers in the State's road transport sector.
