Academics have told a Parliamentary inquiry into the "digital transformation of workplaces" that appropriately trained HR and IR professionals will be vital for leveraging the benefits of AI, while submissions are due tomorrow on a "deactivation code" for digital labour platforms.
The FWC has ruled that a sacked waste company manager's car allowance for a Ford Ranger ute pushed him over the high-income cap, finding that he received a $21,000 benefit based on his 3% work use and rejecting his 25% "time-based availability" claim.
An employer unfairly relied on data from a time and attendance system to attempt to prove a manager left work early multiple times each week, despite senior managers signing off on any timesheet discrepancies.
Sydney's Star casino has won a permanent injunction restraining a manager's ex-partner from distributing its patrons' confidential information, after he sought to blackmail it into sacking her.
The NTEU will today call for a parliamentary inquiry into underpayments by universities, coinciding with it calculating that more than 131,000 staff have been shortchanged by more than $380 million over the past decade, supposedly underlining that wage theft is "baked-in" to the institutions' business models.
A tribunal has accepted a barrister's assurances that an industrial advocacy firm is in no danger of breaching laws prohibiting payment for helping him to represent a real estate agent who is accusing her former employer and four ex-colleagues of s-xual harassment.
The income and compensation caps for unfair dismissal claims are set to increase next Monday, along with filing fees for a range of other applications.
The FWC has upheld Patrick Stevedores' sacking of a worker who thrice tested positive for methamphetamine, but has criticised the employer for breaching its own policies and creating an "incompatible regime" for dealing with drug and alcohol infringements.
A FWC panel considering gender undervaluation in five care and community sector awards has agreed to investigate an ACTU proposal to adopt a methodology to assess work value that the peak body says will save the panel being "lumbered with multiple expert reports that address different questions" without providing answers.
