The NTEU is challenging a FWC decision to knock out the bulk of its "ambiguous" questions in a Curtin University protected action ballot, including proposed bans on responding to phone calls and emails, working outside of ordinary hours or attending work events.
The FWC has found in the absence of a written contract that a sex worker was an independent contractor rather than a casual employee before being dismissed in June for “unacceptable and threatening behaviour".
Speakers at next month's Australian Labour Law Association national conference will explore whether there should be an enforceable right for employees to work from home and whether the rise of "algorithmic" recruitment systems is entrenching "historical and systemic" discrimination.
The FWC has reinstated a tram driver with backpay, finding his sacking for "horseplay" disproportionate and that his employer failed to adhere to the disciplinary process required under its enterprise agreement.
The Albanese Government will deliver a 3% interim pay rise to federal public servants while it tackles "complex" bargaining reforms to facilitate service-wide negotiations, after they weathered a 2% cap, WPI-linked increases and a freeze under the Morrison Government.
Influential CFMMEU leader John Setka has flagged taking a "reasonable" approach to the next major bargaining round after the expected abolition of the ABCC, expressing hope that any significant industrial action can be avoided as members seek to keep pace with inflation.
The FWC has held that resource giant South32 unfairly treated some workers it directed to isolate and get tested after identifying them as COVID-19 contacts, ordering it to recredit annual leave, deduct sick leave and pay them for other times as though they were at work.
The peak recruitment and labour supply industry body has told a parliamentary inquiry that "suppressing" labour hire in favour of "rigid" contractors could be among the unintended consequences of the Albanese Government's plan to introduce "same job, same pay" legislation.
The FWC has refused to stay a MUA rule change that reserves two new full-time assistant national secretary positions for a woman and an Indigenous person, until the tribunal hears a challenge from a retired former union member.
