A worker who made unfounded bullying complaints against 11 alleged perpetrators, including a senior HR manager, two HR team members, a safety specialist and an in-house lawyer has been castigated by the FWC for putting his colleagues through an "ordeal" and advised to refrain from making any further "baseless" complaints.
The SDA is calling for stronger regulation of the retail sector to protect workers from psychosocial hazards linked to excessive workloads, understaffing, and customer abuse, with safety rails around the use of AI.
Workpac must compensate a mineworker cleared for THC when he used his host-employer's self-testing kits after self-medicating with a joint, but who returned mixed results at the workplace.
Newly-introduced NSW legislation would require employers to ensure that their use of artificial intelligence, algorithms and automation does not risk worker health and safety, including by creating excessive workloads and performance metrics or unreasonably monitoring workers.
The MEU says Rio Tinto's workforce is stunned by the resource titan's decision to cut its three-month personal leave entitlement to 12 days for its West Australian iron-ore workers, which WA branch secretary Greg Busson says provides a "timely example" of why the company's workers need an agreement.
Extra protections are a step closer for federal public servants, contractors and volunteers after the Albanese Government re-introduced legislation carrying possible jail time for those breaching stay-away orders after threatening violence.
A worker who insisted on toiling from his hospital bed almost immediately after bowel surgery has failed to overturn his dismissal for repeatedly flouting a direction to work within ordinary hours.
A HSU senior industrial officer who claimed a branch secretary s-xually harassed her has discontinued her adverse action and s-x discrimination action that had been due to surface in the FWC yesterday.
An employer remained in the dark about the extent of a worker's acute mental health crisis after she attempted to take her own life, and reasonably concluded that she had abandoned her employment, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A FWC full bench has reinstated a rubbish truck driver sacked for a low-level alcohol reading, finding that the initial decision relied on reasons the employer had not put forward, without considering whether the driver had an opportunity to respond.
