A taxi driver is ineligible to make an unfair deactivation claim because he has greater bargaining power and more control over his work than gig workers, the FWC has ruled after closely examining legislative definitions of "digital labour platform" and "employee-like workers".
A 67-year-old manager's bid to squeeze his weekly hours into four days to pursue his dream of writing bestsellers is set to be assessed by the FWC, after a member found it met the statutory hurdle for flexible work requests.
The FWC has removed McDonald's South Australian franchisees from a supported bargaining authorisation so they can join the fast food giant in negotiating its first nationwide agreement since 2013.
Queensland's Crisafulli Government is again seeking FWC intervention to stop industrial action affecting the rail network, ahead of the State hosting the NRL Magic Round and the tribunal kicking off a series of intensive negotiations this week.
An ICT company will have to compensate a worker it immediately dismissed because she copied clients into an email announcing that she intended to resign.
Oxfam workers are seeking to formalise a four-day week in their new enterprise agreement, after securing a trial in their previous deal, an Oxfam employee has told the parliamentary inquiry into the NES.
Workers should not think that independent contractors operate in some "unbridled utopia, free from all direction and control", a senior FWC member has observed in tossing out a psychologist's general protections case.
A deputy president has scathingly rebuked a Woolworths worker upset at a colleague suggesting he cover up his "plumber's crack" for bringing an unmeritorious general protections application, lamenting the lack of "effective disincentive for speculative claims" that are fuelling the FWC's "burgeoning caseload".
A senior early childhood teacher summarily dismissed after being told to be more tolerant of racist and N-zi views has won compensation of more than $41,000.
In a significant decision on the meaning of "full rate of pay" under same-job, same-pay laws and the FWC's powers to arbitrate related disputes, a Commission full bench has found that a big mining company must count service prior to SJSP orders when determining on-hire workers' classifications.
