New laws are needed to protect workers from the little-understood rapid intrusion of workplace surveillance – some of it fuelled by artificial intelligence – into their "homes, bodies and emotions", according to a new UTS study.
Working from home arrangements have been a big success in the Australian Public Service, with a mere handful of disputes about flexible work requests, the CPSU has told a Senate inquiry into a bill aimed at enshrining WFH rights.
A judge has refused to accept the CFMEU's claim that it can't admit to entry right breaches at a major project because "it does not know", pointing to the union's "cursory" efforts to scrutinise body-worn camera footage from its own officials.
A worker has been allowed to proceed with an out-of-time unfair dismissal application after his employer failed to tell him he had been taken off the roster, "dangled" the prospect of future shifts in front of him for almost a year, and led him to believe he remained on the books.
Employers say the National Employment Standards should cap the number of public holidays attracting penalty rates, boost "flexibility" for part-timers and those working from home, and keep the gig economy beyond coverage, while academics support removing the 12-months service qualifier for parental leave.
A FWC full bench has found that shiftworkers employed by a major stevedoring company are entitled to payment on top of their ordinary weekly wage if they are rostered off on a public holiday.
Gender pay gap steady, says ABS; One quarter of workers still experiencing harassment, says DCA; Conference to canvass workplace AI risks; and Labour law conference seeking papers.
The Federal Court has found that the limits to the FWC's dispute resolution powers mean that its ruling about an agreement's new long service leave clause only applies to the worker that first raised the issue, rather than all covered employees.
The FWC has ruled that a Civmec electrical engineer who rejected an alternative role has no entitlement to a redundancy payment, finding the employer adequately explained its offer despite its "clumsy and at times misguided" approach.
