Interested parties have until June 16 to respond to a FWC bench's proposal to amend model award terms to highlight the two "alternative and parallel avenues" now available to resolve disputes over flexible work and unpaid parental leave requests.
Gig workers should not be able to challenge their removal from platforms on the ground of unfairness and a separate jurisdiction charged with setting minimum standards ought to deal only with pay, not other conditions such as portable leave and rest break entitlements, according to a Business Council response to the Albanese Government's plan to empower the FWC to deal with "employee-like" forms of work.
A road crew member's pursuit of payment for travel time between his accommodation and remote sites has produced a clear list of winners and losers, after the FWC confirmed the employer's view that whoever is behind the wheel on the way 'home' is working while their co-worker passengers are not.
A Sydney University lecturer sacked for superimposing a swastika on a posted image of an Israeli flag has nominally won his job back, pending the result of the institution's appeal against a finding that his 2019 dismissal breached its agreement's intellectual freedom clause.
A tribunal member has thrown out a lawyer's discrimination case, accusing him of becoming a "serial pest" after he filed multiple discrimination claims against employers for failing to hire him, including a recent matter in which he claimed "very attractive and beautiful" interviewers humiliated him.
New ACTU assistant secretary; Unions call for statutory clarity on who is an employee; New AAT president to lead tribunal transition; Webinar to explore new FWC sexual harassment provisions; and Incolink redundancy fund to expand beyond Victoria.
A national meeting of UWU members in the early childhood education sector will tomorrow call on the Albanese Government and employers to get behind a supported bargaining application to be filed as "soon as possible" once the stream opens up on June 6, as they seek a 25% pay rise.
A casual storeperson allegedly sacked via email while on a pre-approved holiday does not need to seek an extension of time to lodge an unfair dismissal application because it did not take effect until he read it, the FWC has held.
A new report recommends creating specific Fair Work Act protections for gig workers in the care sector and reforming the NDIS and aged care funding and regulation models that "reward businesses that avoid the costs and responsibilities of directly employing personal care and support workers".
