A worker failed to provide evidence that demonstrated that she sought a compressed work week to care for her partner and grandson, and that those needs related to her age, the FWC has found, ruling her flexible work arrangement request invalid.
Fast-growing HR and recruitment platform Employment Hero made a senior technical writer redundant after it replaced the content he produced for its online "help centre" with "automated workflows and AI", but the FWC has declined to extend time to allow him to pursue his unfair dismissal claim.
A worker s-xually assaulted after her hospitalisation for a deliberate overdose has failed to win extra time to pursue her late general protections claim, which the FWC provisionally found has no merit.
Unions are urging NT public sector workers to vote down a 3% annual wage offer that complies with the Government's pay cap and reduces job security, after police voted up a record above-cap pay deal, raising questions about fairness.
The FSU is threatening to lodge a dispute with the FWC to challenge the ANZ's surprise announcement that it intends to axe of thousands of workers, giving the bank by the close of business to clarify its response to questions over alleged consultation failures.
The Federal Court has restrained the FWC from hearing an employer's challenge to an unfavourable interpretation of a LSL clause that is replicated in about 17 offshore agreements.
The FWC has found the ATO failed to respect the ASU's role as the representative of a legally blind worker called into a meeting to discuss a request the union made on his behalf for a 100% WFH flexibility arrangement, to avoid the need to take public transport.
The Federal Court has today rejected BHP Coal's bid to stay the same-job, same-pay orders for its Bowen Basin mines, which had been due to take effect within days.
The Road Transport Advisory Group has recommended that the FWC program key proposed gig food/beverage delivery, last-mile delivery and road transport contractual chain cases to run in parallel, after a consultation process failed to find consensus on priorities.
