A freeze has been imposed on big employers applying to self-insure under Comcare while the Albanese Government reviews the compensation scheme's legislative framework, 17 years after a former Labor IR minister imposed what turned into a six-year moratorium on new participants.
The FWC has acceded to a construction company's request to be legally represented, after rejecting the CFMEU's argument that the Fair Work Act does not enable a party to interchange permission to be represented by a paid agent with permission to be represented by a lawyer, despite their "stark differences" and the exclusion of paid agents from certain courts.
Academics have told a Parliamentary inquiry into the "digital transformation of workplaces" that well-trained HR and IR professionals will be vital to maximise the benefits of AI, while submissions are due tomorrow on a "deactivation code" for digital labour platforms.
The FWC has ruled that a sacked waste company manager's car allowance for a Ford Ranger ute pushed him over the high-income cap, finding that he received a $21,000 benefit based on his 3% work use and rejecting his 25% "time-based availability" claim.
An employer unfairly relied on data from a time and attendance system to attempt to prove a manager left work early multiple times each week, despite senior managers signing off on any timesheet discrepancies.
Sydney's Star casino has won a permanent injunction restraining a manager's ex-partner from distributing its patrons' confidential information, after he sought to blackmail it into sacking her.
The NTEU will today call for a parliamentary inquiry into underpayments by universities, coinciding with it calculating that more than 131,000 staff have been shortchanged by more than $380 million over the past decade, supposedly underlining that wage theft is "baked-in" to the institutions' business models.
A tribunal has accepted a barrister's assurances that an industrial advocacy firm is in no danger of breaching laws prohibiting payment for helping him to represent a real estate agent who is accusing her former employer and four ex-colleagues of s-xual harassment.
