The FWC has upheld the summary dismissal of a postie caught speeding on his motorcycle on the footpath and "hanging out", in a ruling that exposes the extent to which Australia Post tracks the location, speed and work intensity of its workers.
The NSW IRC has today accepted the NSWNMA's position that their public sector members' work is undervalued, awarding heavily frontloaded increases of up to 28% over three years.
Existing AI technologies could boost labour productivity growth in Australia to levels last seen in the late 1990s and early 2000s, according to a leading AI developer.
A lawyer ordered to pay $41,233 of $371,000 in costs incurred by Legal Aid Queensland in defending a discrimination claim she abandoned at the last minute is now facing further costs, after losing her appeal.
A FWC full bench had upheld an Uber Eats driver's appeal and ordered his reactivation, finding the food delivery giant failed to follow the deactivation code and unreasonably ejected him when his rating dropped below 85%.
The RTBU will argue in the first right to disconnect dispute hearing that an on-call allowance fails to adequately compensate a worker and the FWC should find reasonable his refusal to answer or make calls on his days off.
A FWC expert panel is seeking urgent feedback on a draft contractual chain order to ensure road transport workers can from the start of next week recoup higher fuel costs caused by the conflict in the Middle East.
A NSW IRC full bench will on Thursday decide public sector nurses' special case bid for a 35% pay rise, while the state union's employees will get a 5% increase and a one-off "cost of living allowance" under a proposed agreement variation.
Uber has reached agreement with the TWU to add a 5c-per-kilometre surcharge that goes directly to drivers, off the back of FWC hearings into fuel price relief for the road transport sector.
The ACTU has this morning lodged an urgent case in the FWC seeking a minimum 10c-per-kilometre increase to vehicle allowances in modern awards, to address the Iran War-related spike in fuel costs.
