The NSW Minns Labor Government is closer to winning passage of controversial Workers Compensation amendments designed to rein in claims for psychological injuries, along with a bill making it easier for unions to inspect employers' digital work systems.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of an experienced electrician burned by a fireball, factoring in his failure to wear a face shield and rejecting his claim that "delirium" made him fudge a risk assessment.
The FWC has ordered a BHP subsidiary to reinstate an unfairly dismissed former amateur boxer accused of aggressive behaviour, and deploy him to another mine.
A type-1 diabetic's late general protections application alleging disability discrimination can proceed after his ASX-listed labour hire employer conceded the employment relationship had "dwindled and ceased" due to his work restrictions.
A review of Comcare's legislative framework says there is no choice but to redraft it, and warns AI, WFH and climate change "megatrends" all carry a risk of increasing psychological injury claims, while unions say workers compensation changes in NSW will cut support to those who are close to "catatonic" with such injuries.
The Federal Court has rejected Skycity Adelaide casino's bid to dismiss for want of prosecution an employee's claim that it sacked him for whistleblowing, finding it "would have an air of punishment about it".
The author of a book tracing 150 years of campaigning for a shorter Australian working week says it offers crucial lessons for current efforts to win a four-day work week, cut unpaid overtime, and properly account for domestic labour, while AMWU national secretary Steve Murphy considers it part of a "just transition".
A DEI specialist found by the FWC to have been left with no option but to resign claims power company Endeavour Energy directed her to sideline an Indigenous man she selected to chair a NAIDOC week event, so that its head of organisational development could host it to "raise her professional profile".
After a FWC full bench finding that bullying must be assessed within a "spectrum of seriousness", a member has affirmed in redetermining a paramedic's challenge to a 350km transfer that his treatment of a subordinate constituted serious misconduct.
More than half of respondents to an "ethical bystander" survey witnessed s-xual or gender-based harassment in the previous 12 months, and more than a quarter several times a year, according to Unions NSW's new Ready, Willing, Unable report.
