Three-day RTO for Woolies backroom employees; FWC consulting further on paid agent regulation; Former Qantas executive won't fly: Virgin; and Expert panel seeking views on gig/transport research proposals.
A charity's HR manager engaged in "a blatant exercise in deception" to orchestrate the sacking of a senior manager wrongly accused of serious misconduct, a court has found.
Gig work is "no longer on the periphery" and has become an established feature of the labour market, new research presented at the annual IR academics' conference has revealed.
In rare flexibility orders won by an ANMF organiser who moved 500km from the office after experiencing domestic violence, the FWC has temporarily blocked the union from requiring her to work more than three nights per fortnight away from home and directed it to count travel time as work time between certain hours for the first half of the school year.
Major digital platforms have jointly called for the NSW Minns Government to drop draft legislation that will expand transport gig workers' rights, arguing that it duplicates recent federal changes, but NSW IR Minister Sophie Cotsis says the legislation is needed to ensure the State's IR system remains "fit for purpose".
Low uptake of family and domestic violence leave might be explained by a number of "significant, complex" barriers that employers can address, including a lack of manager training on how to help workers to access the entitlement, a new study has found.
A tribunal has ordered the reinstatement of a council worker found to have had a "brain snap" when he referred to his manager in a text as a "rude c--t" he felt like punching.
A young worker who is accusing her boss of leaving her no choice but to resign when he physically assaulted her has won extra time to pursue a late unfair dismissal claim, with the FWC accepting that mental health ramifications contributed to the delay.
Bills sent to Senate inquiries; BHP SJSP test case to conclude mid-month; New head for Diversity Council; and 10-year suppression order in Lattouf case.
The FWC has backed a school's refusal to let a coordinator perform her executive role part-time for the first two terms when she returns from parental leave, supporting its offer of a lower-paying teacher position and noting it is not simply "serving customers who are buying widgets".
