After NSW IRC President Ingmar Taylor recently confessed he is "somewhat evangelical" about the efficiencies of paperless hearings and suggested they will become the norm across all courts and tribunals, he has now issued a practice note for fully-electronic proceedings.
Labor has softened its position on a single national system for regulation of labour hire, in the draft policy platform adopted at last week's national conference in Adelaide.
The NSW Minns Government has further bolstered the state's Industrial Relations Commission, appointing former director of public prosecutions Lloyd Babb SC as a deputy president and judicial member.
Employers in NSW must now implement a systematic process to identify psychosocial hazards, assess risks, implement controls and review their effectiveness, with laws taking effect that elevate the state's WHS codes of practice to legally enforceable minimum standards.
New South Wales should set up a standalone labour hire licensing scheme within 12 months that draws on the strengths of the Queensland and Victorian regimes and would give it the best opportunity to influence a long-promised national scheme, according to a new McKell Institute report.
Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth has made revised regulations to enable state and territory laws dealing with workplace s-xual harassment-related non-disclosure agreements to operate alongside the Fair Work Act, ahead of its response to the AHRC's Speaking from Experience report and a legislative review.
The NSW Court of Appeal has overturned orders blocking a law firm from acting for a rival practice's former employed solicitor, in a decision finding that information imparted while training and mentoring a junior lawyer did not justify a restraint on his future employer.
The NSW corruption watchdog has found that a consultant HR advisor for a State Government department engaged in corrupt conduct by blacklisting a company linked to an employee who made a bullying complaint after his engagement ended.
The NSW IRC's significant increases ordered today will result in midwives and registered and enrolled nurses at the top of the pay scale becoming the best paid in Australia.
The NSW IRC has today accepted the NSWNMA's position that their public sector members' work is undervalued, awarding heavily frontloaded increases of up to 28% over three years.
