A HSU senior industrial officer who claimed a branch secretary s-xually harassed her has discontinued her adverse action and s-x discrimination action that had been due to surface in the FWC yesterday.
Uber's "farcical", "inane" and "mind-numbing" response to a driver's attempt to challenge it booting him off the platform for alleged misconduct did not satisfactorily explain why he filed his unfair deactivation application 12 days' late, the FWC has found.
An employer remained in the dark about the extent of a worker's acute mental health crisis after she attempted to take her own life, and reasonably concluded that she had abandoned her employment, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An expert FWC panel headed by President Adam Hatcher has decried the Albanese Government's "proposed usurpation" of the Commission's role while rejecting an ASU request to delay consideration of gender-undervaluation changes in a major award.
A long-serving FWC member has lamented the tribunal's "disappointing" refusal to cover the cost of her attending the "premier industrial relations event", the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association's national conference in Brisbane later this year.
A Federal Circuit and Family Court judge has urged the Albanese Government to "substantially" increase penalties for failing to engage with compliance notices and to empower the FWO to seek the removal of directors, to prevent recidivism and deter directors and companies from ignoring notices.
The Albanese Government will introduce legislation this week to prohibit annualised salaries arrangements from "absorbing" award-enshrined penalty rates and overtime if they leave workers worse off, while employers behind a major retail award conditions buy-out bid claim the approach undermines upcoming productivity talks.
A teacher accused of assaulting three students has secured a delay in his FWC unfair dismissal proceedings, after a local court adjourned his criminal hearing
The MEAA has rejected an ABC deal that would have provided a 3% interim pay rise while prohibiting employees from taking industrial action for six-months while they push for 5.5% pay rises each year and a guarantee that AI will not replace human workers.
The Federal Court has today refused to seek to punish for contempt Nine Media companies, editors, in-house lawyers and journalists, after their newspapers failed to take down articles naming some of those involved in a campaign against the ABC's employment of radio presenter Antoinette Lattouf.
