A four-member FWC full bench has resisted unions' push to insert a detailed "right to disconnect" clause in modern awards, but has also rejected employers' minimalist term, opting instead for a draft provision that sticks closely to the legislative mandate.
A charity ordered to compensate a retrenched financial analyst has been reminded by the FWC that consultation involves "not merely telling a worker" they have been made redundant months after deciding to restructure their team.
The FWC has declined to grant anti-bullying orders to one of its own conciliators after failing to substantiate any of the eight alleged instances of victimisation and intimidation levelled against a former colleague who became her manager.
In a significant decision on FWC powers, a court has found that the Commission can dig into a university's finding that an academic plagiarised a student's work to establish whether it breached its agreement's disciplinary processes.
A FWC presidential member is today training the CPSU and the FWO in using an interest-based approach to employee consultations, using the Collaborative Approaches program spearheaded by current Fair Work Ombudsman Anna Booth when she served as a deputy president of the tribunal.
An employer's failure to properly communicate the result of an investigation to a worker accused of an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate increased his discomfort at work, but did not force him to resign, the FWC has found.
A tribunal member has torn up his own certificate sending an adverse action case to court after accepting he prematurely found that efforts to resolve the matter had been exhausted.
Justice Ingmar Taylor, the president of the NSW Industrial Court that has been re-established this month by the Minns Labor Government, has told a ceremony to celebrate its rebirth that the recent scrapping of the former government's public sector wages cap reinstates the "broad and unfettered power" to arbitrate disputes bestowed on the institution by the State IR Act's architect, Jeff Shaw.
