The NSW IRC has affirmed its ability to dictate the terms of a corrective Facebook post it forced the HSU to publish and has dismissed a claim that in heading off paramedics' industrial action, a senior tribunal member approached it on the basis that State IR laws don't "tolerate" it during conciliation.
The NSW Government will establish a bullying and harassment jurisdiction in the State IRC in an attempt to prevent psychological injuries, as part of wider reforms to the workers' compensation scheme.
Minns Government legislation to boost protections for NSW gig workers and owner drivers in the road transport sector has passed both houses of State Parliament.
A tribunal has rejected a bid by the NSW Department of Education to block SafeWork from cross-examining a witness and from relying on previously redacted evidence on the basis of public interest immunity.
Platform companies, gig workers and unions will be able to apply to the NSW IRC for determinations on conditions and pay for the first time under legislation to be introduced by the Minns Government today, but Uber is calling for "further scrutiny".
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Labor-aligned think tank the McKell Institute has called for the Albanese Government to commit to establishing a national labour hire licensing scheme by the end of the year, in a new report commissioned by unions and Woolworths with the aim of protecting horticultural workers.
A recruitment company leader seeking to challenge the restraints in his employment contract and a shareholder agreement has been allowed to continue the case in NSW, after related entities in Great Britain failed to convince the Federal Court to stay the matter because of an exclusive jurisdiction clause.
The PSA has lost its challenge to a NSW IRC decision said to have "wide ranging" implications for union delegates using workplace emails to communicate with union lawyers, with a special constable facing dismissal for disclosing confidential information to inform its application for a new award.
NSW IRC President Ingmar Taylor says after a decade of pay caps depriving the tribunal of the capacity to ensure incomes did not fall behind in real terms, all submissions informing a review of its wage fixing principles are calling for change.
