Before the first Right to Disconnect dispute hearing, scheduled for this morning, Pacific National resolved the matter in a private conference, leaving the Fair Work Act's RtD provisions untested after 20 months in operation.
The FWC has dismissed claims that an employer undermined good faith bargaining obligations by suspending and then proposing to sack a union delegate who grabbed the shirt of a child patron at a sports centre.
The FWC has found a private health care provider should re-start consultations about removing a "legacy" condition of paid meal breaks for its longest-serving nurses, after it told them the apparently undocumented benefit is no longer "an option".
A senior FWC member has used an experienced Jetstar aircraft maintenance engineer's unsuccessful challenge to his sacking to emphasise that "hazing" is no longer considered "funny", after he left two apprentices stranded six metres in the air under a Boeing 787 wing while he went to lunch.
The FWC has upheld the summary dismissal of a postie caught speeding on his motorcycle on the footpath and "hanging out", in a ruling that exposes the extent to which Australia Post tracks the location, speed and work intensity of its workers.
Existing AI technologies could boost labour productivity growth in Australia to levels last seen in the late 1990s and early 2000s, according to a leading AI developer.
The RTBU will argue in the first right to disconnect dispute hearing that an on-call allowance fails to adequately compensate a worker and the FWC should find reasonable his refusal to answer or make calls on his days off.
The FWC has ordered a Catholic school to reinstate the partner of a convicted murderer who became involved in publicity about her case, finding the employer failed to give him clear written directions and properly inform him of the cumulative reasons for his dismissal.
