The Federal Court has rejected embattled HSU No 1 Victorian branch secretary Diana Asmar's bid to stay FWC general manager Murray Furlong's prosecution of her for alleged "cashbacks", after she failed to establish a criminal trial is "on the cards".
Employers should be statutorily barred from using AI to make decisions affecting workers without "human oversight", while the FWC should review the National Employment Standards in response to "significant job redesign" by the technology, says a government inquiry into the digital transformation of workplaces.
Only a quarter of scientists who sought assistance from HR after experiencing bullying or intimidation found them supportive, while 39% found HR "useless" and 19% said they "actively made things worse", according to a survey conducted by Griffith University academics.
A HR manager has been told to go back to the drawing board in establishing a general protections case against an online trading company and its billionaire founder, who she accuses of having repeatedly directed her to manage employees in ways that would breach workplace laws.
McDonald's has told a FWC full bench on the first day of a hearing tackling the SDA's test bid for a multi-employer supported bargaining authorisation covering 18 SA franchisees that it strongly opposes the application and considers it unnecessary.
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".
