Academics say Menulog's abandoned bid for an on-demand delivery services award holds the clues to tensions and challenges likely to confront those attempting to establish the rules of the game for employee-like workers more broadly.
The FWC will arbitrate a dispute between a research institute and two former employees seeking redundancy payments, after they overcame an objection that only the NTEU is entitled to file the application following the expiry of their "maximum terms".
The ACTU has renewed its call to remove or curb employers' ability to lock out their workforces, after a multinational mining company extended to almost three weeks its freeze on mineworkers returning to the job at an Illawarra coal pit.
The FWC has listed the ANMF's nurses and midwives work value case for a conference early next month as the union and employers attempt to resolve outstanding issues, such as any phase-in arrangements, without the need for a full contested hearing.
The ABC must pay $70,000 compensation for non-economic loss to presenter Antoinette Lattouf for terminating her employment for reasons including that she held a political opinion opposing the Israeli military campaign in Gaza, after a Federal Court ruling this morning.
A HR manager's failure to resolve whether an IT specialist engaged as a contractor 20 years ago became an employee when added to the payroll 12 months later has backfired, after a court found he is owed more than $100,000 in leave entitlements.
The FWC has slashed a long-serving worker's redundancy payment from 12 weeks to six, after finding that he unreasonably declined a job offer with additional benefits that compensated for a longer commute to a location he derided as a "sh-thole".
In a ruling on little-considered Secure Jobs Act amendments, a FWC full bench has today upheld a decision to allow the Grill'd Norwood deal to continue operating for a further 90 days, finding the agreement's "inferior" conditions "weighty", but the hiatus before termination within the Commission's discretion.
A former Google software engineer who accused the tech giant's HR staff of bullying will not get to pursue it for adverse action after the FWC comprehensively rejected claims that two law firms and two barristers were to blame for a five-month delay in filing her case.
