As IR practitioners continue to grapple with the challenges and opportunities posed by digital disruption, an academic has told this year's AIRAANZ conference of the limitations faced by online work platforms that are seeking to gain a foothold in creative industries.
The FWC has highlighted the additional credibility provided when employers test for drugs in accordance with the Australian Standard, in upholding a multinational mining company's sacking of a marijuana smoker who breached its zero tolerance policy.
The FWC has cleared the way for a veteran's advocate to bring a bullying claim against RSL Queensland and 14 of its directors, after establishing that his volunteer services for one of its 240 sub-branches was in fact work performed for the constitutionally-covered state organisation.
Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James says her officers will continue to apply the traditional legal tests of whether workers in the on-demand or "gig" economy are employees.
Employer groups have began to push back against union and Labor support for a "living wage", with ACCI arguing it would cost between $4.8 billion and $7.9 billion per year.
The Queensland IRC has rebuffed a female employee's claim that the domestic violence she experienced amounted to sex discrimination under the State's Anti-Discrimination Act.
The Greens have introduced a private members' bill into the House of Representatives that would provide 10 days a year of paid domestic and family violence leave as part of the National Employment Standards.
The Federal Court has accepted that the ABCC made a "genuine mistake" when it pursued CFMEU national secretary Michael O'Connor for his alleged involvement in a blockade at Sydney's Barangaroo project.
An FWC full bench has today thrown out a United Voice and AEU equal pay claim for childcare workers after finding a 2005 work value case was insufficient, in the absence of contemporary evidence, to establish metalworkers as an appropriate comparator.
