A council worker who broke her arm falling over a pet fence while working from home is eligible for workers' compensation, a tribunal has held, while finding that other than a checklist the employer "effectively abrogated its responsibilities" to provide a safe environment.
The panel reviewing the Albanese Government's Secure Jobs reforms is seeking submissions by November 29 on whether they're operating effectively, or if further amendments are needed to rectify any "unintended consequences".
A federal court full bench has remitted a case for retrial after a judge facing impending retirement reproduced "significant" portions of a worker's submissions without attribution in an adverse action case and failed to "bring an independent mind" to his determination.
The ASU claims employers seeking to vary the SCHADSÂ award sleepover allowance in a hearing starting today are attempting to make it lawful for community and disability support workers to be at work for up to 28 hours without overtime pay.
Workers employed by five labour hire companies at four Central Queensland and NSW coal mines will each receive up to $50,000 a year in extra pay, under new FWC full bench same-job, same-pay orders.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has told this year's AI-themed Ron McCallum Debate that algorithmic wage discrimination is having "major effects" on the world of work and employment rights, which he expects to "hit Australia fairly soon".
In the wake of his party's landslide victory on the weekend, new Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has appointed Jarrod Bleijie as his IR minister, after reassuring public sector workers on Monday that there will be "no employment cuts" and he won't be "repeating" the Newman Government's morale- and productivity-sapping actions.
The Federal Government should consider "a right of access" to workplaces rather than a right of entry", to overcome the presumption that workers attend a physical location to perform their jobs that "ignore[s] the reality" of post-COVID-19 remote and digital work environments, a union leader suggests in a paper she will present at the Australian Labour Law Association conference next week in Geelong.
