The FWC has upbraided a small business owner for informing a supervisor through an email drafted with help from ChatGPT that it had decided to retrench her, finding that sacking a worker via such a "cursory" means fails "to adhere to basic standards of decency".
The Federal Court has ordered related entities ECA Training Pty Ltd and NECA Training Pty Ltd to pay $30,000 in fines for blocking two ETU officials from entering its Sydney premises to talk to apprentices.
Labour law expert Ron McCallum says ahead of this year's annual debate named in his honour that a "wellbeing index" for employers, and stronger measures to boost mental health, fairness and inclusion, could all help drive up productivity.
A FWC member has revealed the untold story of what happened to the vast majority of the almost 300 disputes over flexible work requests the tribunal received in the last financial year, after only a handful went to arbitration, while she also spelt out her proven template for resolution.
The FSU says employers are now on notice that they must have genuine business grounds for refusing flexible work arrangements, after the FWC made orders to enable a Westpac employee to work from home to care for her children, finding "no question" her role can be "performed completely remotely".
After a withering assessment of the Queensland justice department's performance management processes, the State IRC has over-ruled its refusal to make permanent an acting senior legal officer engaged on successive short-term contracts.
Property giant Brookfield has settled a case with a senior executive retrenched ahead of her return from parental leave, after the company admitted it "fell short" but claimed it has improved its practices.
The FWC has found a flexible working request invalid, because of its "tenuous" connection to the worker's caring responsibilities and the strain his absence would have imposed on other workers.
More women are being appointed to managerial roles but their high resignation rates are undermining gender equality gains, while occupational segregation remains a key driver of inequality, according to a new WGEA report.
