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.
In a significant judgment on how far liability extends during industrial action, a court has found the MUA not responsible for a member telling a Qube shift manager "you'll end up dead dog" for crossing a picket line in 2021.
An Uber driver who varied his schedule slightly but worked every weekend until he filed his unfair deactivation claim clearly demonstrated "some form of repetitive pattern" and performed work "on a regular basis", the FWC has ruled.
The High Court has refused leave to appeal a finding that an international IT company must pay long service leave to an employee who worked the bulk of his 10-year tenure in India, a few years in Victoria, but qualified under Queensland's more flexible LSL laws as he transferred in time to serve out part of his post-resignation notice period.
An Amazon Flex driver's late bid to challenge his deactivation for entering a home can proceed after a FWC full bench weighed the gig company's "confusing and ambiguous" communications and the driver's personal circumstances that included suicidal ideation and a sick wife.
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.
The FWC has ruled that an Uber driver's "stand by" time doesn't count when determining whether he had worked "on a regular basis", but he can still pursue his unfair deactivation claim because he worked more than three days a week.
In a case highlighting the "obvious danger" of relying on artificial intelligence for legal advice, the FWC has refused to extend time for a "hopeless" 900-day late dismissal challenge written by and filed on the suggestion of ChatGPT.
A FWC presidential member has declined to grant an employer's request to delay consideration of its appeal against an unfavourable long service leave ruling while it awaits the result of a related Federal Court case, taking a dim view of its attempt to move forums "midstream".
The FWC has ordered lift manufacturer Schindler to end an unlawful lockout of more than 200 workers, holding that alerting union delegates to impending "employer response action" did not satisfy a requirement to notify bargaining representatives.
