After its resurrection this year, the NSW Industrial Court is starting to hear federal underpayment claims and is aiming to have a "substantial" small claims jurisdiction up and running in six months, modelled on the best aspects of the South Australian and Western Australian employment tribunals.
An employer's failure to give a skipper an opportunity to respond to specific allegations about the circumstances surrounding a charter boat's costly collision with a channel marker did not provide sufficient reason to reverse his dismissal, the FWC has found.
More than 90% of federal public sector employees have not been trained in the use of artificial intelligence despite 41% knowing that it is already being used in their department or agency, a survey has found.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has followed up his recent promise of "genuine engagement" with road transport employers sweating on the TWU's minimum-standards test cases for gig workers and "last-mile" deliveries by asking the Road Transport Advisory Group for more details on consultation timeframes, who it might include in subcommittees and how it "proposes to conduct itself more generally".
The FWC has shifted a regional veterinary surgery, formerly run by Queensland University and with a 12-strong workforce, from a university agreement to the industry award, saving the employer at least $200,000 a year, after unions and employees raised no objections.
Unions have today seized on mining employer group leader Steve Knott endorsing former Howard Government frontbencher Nick Minchin's 2006 declaration that Work Choices didn't go far enough.
Higher education employers have asked a FWC full bench to interpret the new limits on fixed term contracts before it considers amending the industry award to accommodate them, while flagging that it might be more efficient to refer that issue to the Federal Court.
The CFMEU manufacturing division is seeking to have its demerger application considered by a full bench before the end of the year, it told a hearing this afternoon.
A union-commissioned academic report has linked "invisible skills" exercised by childcare workers with the gender-based undervaluation of their work, but employers have told a five-member FWC full bench that this unseen expertise is already recognised in the industry award.
A FWC full bench is seeking feedback on its provisional view on phasing-in of aged care nurse work value pay rises of up to 25.5%, starting in January next year.
