A FWC-commissioned survey shows that 40% of applicants are using AI to prepare and manage their cases, as the tribunal's president revealed he will mandate disclosure of the technology from October 20 for "individual rights matters".
An executive on a major Victorian Government infrastructure project who accepted a large severance package could not "seriously" contend he departed reluctantly when he elected to pocket a $50,000 payment instead of taking part in a further redeployment process, the FWC has found.
A FWC full bench has refused to overturn the dismissal of a veteran AFL umpire who frog-marched a trespassing jogger from a training session, in a significant decision "reconciling" the tribunal's different approaches to whether employers have valid reasons to sack workers variously involved in physical altercations and policy breaches.
A FWC full bench has reassured a union that majority support determinations are still a possibility in circumstances where apprentices form a "subgroup" at group training organisations.
Extend family and domestic violence provisions to include perpetrators beyond immediate family, weigh whether to expand the employee-like worker framework to include journalists and performers, and form a tripartite committee of unions and employers to report annually on emerging IR issues, the Closing Loopholes review's final report recommends.
The Federal Court has granted property advisory business Savills a 20-year suppression order, after finding publication of stayed sexual harassment and discrimination allegations would undermine the effectiveness of its earlier orders.
A Federal Court AI symposium has heard the legal profession needs a nationally consistent regulatory approach, while one of the most senior members of England and Wales' judiciary warned another forum the technology will inevitably become a "judicial decision-maker" in some fields.
In what might be the first FWC costs order for failing to heed warnings against proceeding with AI-assisted cases afflicted by "unfixable" flaws, the FWC has taken the "very rare step" of ordering a worker to pay part of his former employer's costs of defending his "doomed" unfair dismissal claim.
The NSW IRC had to evacuate at the start of a speech by a new member likened to a beam of sunshine with a collaborative approach that helped keep the State's lights on, but when the fire truck departed, he said a supermarket job ignited his interest in IR.
