Uneven access to working from home is creating a "two-tiered system", with low-waged workers less likely to work remotely, the ASU told the Senate inquiry into the Greens WFH bill, while the Productivity Commissioner says the cost of remote work for employers can be "difficult to quantify".
A job that required four hours a day of travel did not amount to acceptable alternative employment for a redundant worker who had toiled almost entirely from home, the FWC has ruled.
The working from home term in the clerical award will take effect next Monday, after a FWC full bench today confirmed its August ruling, with minor amendments to phrasing of the proposed new rights.
Uneven access to high-quality flexible work is contributing to a widening wealth gap, with workers who have access to "good flex" better able to balance work and caring responsibilities, "while those in bad flex are pushed into more precarious work", new academic research has found.
An employer had a valid reason to sack a foreign exchange dealer who secretly worked from Bali and Singapore while presenting himself as working from home, but the FWC has found its procedural failings rendered the dismissal unfair.
The FWC has ordered a university to allow an advisor to work from home one day a week, despite finding it had reasonable business grounds to reject the two-days-a-week WFH flexibility request she made on the basis of her age.
A bargaining dispute between the FSU and the Reserve Bank heads to the FWC today, as the union seeks to head off a second-round offer it believes will be unchanged from an original proposal voted down in July.
The FWC has thrown out a worker's flexible work bid after she attempted to "call in" older medical documents and conceded she had not been diagnosed with the disability identified in her request.
Victorian Premier Ben Carroll has today revealed details of the amendments to the work from home Bill that he negotiated with business groups, as debate on the legislation resumes.
Victorian Premier Ben Carroll has promised business leaders he will delay the commencement of controversial work-from-home legislation by 10 months and provide more time for debate before attempting to pass it ahead of the November 28 State election.
