A Victorian government youth justice worker sacked for not having further COVID-19 vaccination shots after reacting adversely to his first dose has won compensation, the FWC finding the department should have explored redeployment and reasonable adjustments.
A HR manager facing potential criminal charges has before a FWC bench refused to answer nearly 100 questions seeking to establish whether he lied on the application form for a contentious agreement that provides for employees to work "voluntary" additional hours without penalty rates.
Consumer price inflation has moderated slightly to 6.9%, according to the latest ABS monthly indicator, but continues to grow at more than double the 2.8% pace of bargained wage rises and 3.1% leap in pay growth across the economy.
A senior FWC member has thrown out an airline catering worker's dismissal dispute after finding a psychologist's assessment that a scheduled telephone hearing should be postponed due to his mental health did not warrant an adjournment.
Aviation firefighters are threatening to stage a four-hour strike at 27 major airports next week as they pursue a new enterprise agreement that includes minimum staffing clauses they claim will address dangerous job cuts.
The ANMF has won an interlocutory injunction stopping a hospital from dismissing a nurse over a health-related exemption from night shifts while she seeks to establish it is a reasonable adjustment or flexible work arrangement and that night work is not an inherent requirement of the job.
Wage Inspectorate Victoria has laid Australia's first criminal wage theft charges against a business and its owner, while warning it intends to bring further matters to court.
An academic has found that although the last Labor administration designed its paid parental leave scheme to supplement other parental leave entitlements, most employees only receive government minimum wage payments and where employers offer additional entitlements, they tend to mirror the scheme's limitations.
Almost three years since the start of the pandemic, new WGEA data shows that almost 40% of employers are offering flexible work arrangements that enable employees to decide how, where and when they work, providing "broad benefits," but agency director Mary Wooldridge is also urging employers to be "mindful" of the potential negatives.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has highlighted the positive duty imposed on employers to take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate sex discrimination, sexual harassment and victimisation under its Respect@Work legislation, which passed Parliament this afternoon.
