The FWC has issued two consent orders in one of its first s-xual harassment dispute cases, in which teenage parties in the proceedings have agreed not to discuss an "inappropriate" video recording, with the viewing or circulation of it possibly constituting a criminal act.
IR and employment law academics have welcomed the Albanese Government's "critically important" decision to introduce a definition of "employee" into the Fair Work Act but questions remain over the creation of a lower-rights "employee-like" category for gig workers.
A signage company that sacked a worker via its director telling him to "get the f-ck out of my life" has failed to convince the FWC of its "extraordinary proposal" to spread his compensation payments over three and a half years.
The Albanese Government's third tranche of IR legislation will define employment based on the former common law test overturned by the High Court's judgment last year in Jamsek, providing one of the building blocks for the FWC to exercise its new power to regulate "employee-like" work, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke said today.
A major meat processor that told workers a proposed deal would boost their pay while reducing the rates for future recruits has failed to win approval after the FWC found some fresh starters could in fact earn far more while others would experience a "repugnant" reduction, while the umpire also suggested if the new genuine agreement principles applied, it might not comply.
The Albanese Government's legislation to empower the FWC to set minimum standards for "employee-like" gig economy workers will apply only to work performed through digital labour platforms, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke will reveal in a speech to the National Press Club tomorrow.
IR academic and researcher Ron Callus, best known for leading a pioneering IR research centre and the first of the two landmark Australian Workplace IR Surveys, is being remembered for his outstanding scholarship, along with his humanity and compassion, after his death in Sydney aged 70.
"Australia's unluckiest job applicant" has been ordered to pay a labour hire company indemnity costs of $44,000 for a "time-wasting" failed discrimination case, in which he sought $115,000 in compensation and refused an early $5000 settlement offer.
