A tribunal is poised to order a council to pay more than $900,000 to a worker it discriminated against by sacking him over his inability to drive an allocated vehicle, in a decision panning a "chilling" suggestion that show cause letters formed part of consultations to identify reasonable adjustments.
Early educators guaranteed 15% pay rise; "De-escalation" training for parliamentarians; Loxton, Stam appointed to SAET; and Technology and productivity inquiry.
The Minns Government has appointed barrister and Discrimination Law and Practice co-author Bronwyn Byrnes to the NSW IRC, saying she will help manage an anticipated workload increase driven by bullying, harassment and workers compensation reforms.
An employment court has found that an employer did not breach a worker's right to disconnect when it pressed her to respond to "unreasonable" out-of-hours communications that included TikTok videos about her social life, in the first ruling on the untested provisions.
The NSW IRC has welcomed a new member who "literally wrote the book" on IR laws covering owner-drivers and certain gig workers in the State's road transport sector.
Tasmania's Rockliff Government is weighing options for the future of the Tasmanian Industrial Commission after its president's term expired recently and the attorney-general last year revealed plans to fold the tribunal into TasCAT.
After NSW IRC President Ingmar Taylor recently confessed he is "somewhat evangelical" about the efficiencies of paperless hearings and suggested they will become the norm across all courts and tribunals, he has now issued a practice note for fully-electronic proceedings.
The NSW Minns Government has further bolstered the state's Industrial Relations Commission, appointing former director of public prosecutions Lloyd Babb SC as a deputy president and judicial member.
One of the CFMEU's most controversial officials has had his state entry permit revoked, after an IR tribunal full bench used new laws to revisit his lengthy criminal history and consider threats last year to "rip out the heart" of a sub-contractor's representative.
A NSW IRC full bench will on Thursday decide public sector nurses' special case bid for a 35% pay rise, while the state union's employees will get a 5% increase and a one-off "cost of living allowance" under a proposed agreement variation.
