The FWC has upbraided a small business owner for informing a supervisor through an email drafted with help from ChatGPT that it had decided to retrench her, finding that sacking a worker via such a "cursory" means fails "to adhere to basic standards of decency".
The FWC has ordered Uber to "reactivate" a driver removed from its platform following complaints accusing him of m-sturbating and making s-xual comments while conveying passengers.
The CFMEU has won same-job, same-pay orders that it expects will lift the pay of labour hire doggers, riggers, and crane operators performing shutdown maintenance at a WA gold mine by up to 125%.
The IEU has filed a "historic" single interest bargaining authorisation application to force Victoria's Catholic school bosses to negotiate a sector-wide deal, while the employer peak body is today awaiting feedback on an offer put directly to teachers and support staff.
A university has failed to establish that a tutor's dismissal took effect when a lecturer removed him from a group chat, clearing the way for him to challenge his sacking, unlike a colleague also dropped from the forum, who has since lodged an appeal.
The implications of the Federal Court's retail underpayments decision are only starting to be understood, with employment law academic Andrew Stewart warning of the significent consequences of its redefinition of employer record-keeping obligations and findings on proving workers' agreement to vary award conditions.
A worker held a mistaken belief that he had a legal entitlement to a cooling-off period after he settled his unfair dismissal claim, a FWC full bench has ruled.
The FSU says employers are now on notice that they must have genuine business grounds for refusing flexible work arrangements, after the FWC made orders to enable a Westpac employee to work from home to care for her children, finding "no question" her role can be "performed completely remotely".
In its first use of the new power to unilaterally amend the terms of substandard proposed agreements, the FWC has signalled it will rewrite provisions in three Aldi enterprise deals that leave storepersons worse off, to enable their approval.
A disability support worker who lodged a general protections claim against a man with quadriplegia for allegedly forcing him to resign as a carer must pay part of his legal costs after holding out for too long on a settlement.
