The SDA has told the Senate inquiry into work and care that the Fair Work Act's "right to request" flexibility should be amended to impose a positive duty on employers to reasonably accommodate workers' needs, while grounds for refusal would be limited to "unjustifiable hardship".
A foreign exchange dealer sacked after unwittingly becoming entangled in a $23,000 fraud will have his unfair dismissal case reheard after a FWC bench agreed a tribunal member found him in "serious breach" of a company policy that did not exist.
With the finish line in sight for the FWC's seven-year "plain language" transformation of its 120-plus modern awards, a full bench says the process is nevertheless an "ongoing exercise" and parties can seek at any time to address ambiguities and uncertainties in the instruments.
Platform companies Deliveroo, Menulog and Uber say they are embracing the Federal Government's consultations on the introduction of national minimum IR standards for the gig economy, but insist any changes must be tailor-made and leave room for choice.
The CFMMEU's mining & energy division is seeking authorisation from members to take industrial action as it pursues the replacement of the biggest enterprise agreement in the Queensland coalfields, after losing patience with BHP in FWC-brokered negotiations.
The CFMMEU's Mining & Energy division has today in echoes of the ABCC kicked off its new bid to break away from the parent mega-union by tendering evidence that the Construction & General division has breached workplace or safety laws 227 times since 1999.
The ABCC has dropped a prosecution of the CFMMEU over two officials' alleged entry breaches, after the trial judge expressed concern that a key employer witness had put himself at risk of self-incrimination.
A law firm found to have breached the Legal Profession Act when estimating costs says it will challenge a 25% deduction to the sum it claims after settling one of several no win, no fee retail workers' class actions, arguing also that proposed exemptions for litigation funding schemes are unlikely to improve the plight of those who are underpaid.
An Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission employee seeking to combine working from home and carer's leave to avoid COVID-19 while he and his endometriosis-suffering wife undergo IVF treatment has failed to establish his circumstances are exceptional under the agency's agreement provisions.
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has defended seeking advice from two key players in the 1998 waterfront dispute – Chris Corrigan and John Howard - while his government is embroiled in a torrid bargaining dispute at Sydney Trains with the RTBU and other unions.
