Coles says it will provide undertakings in a bid to secure approval of its proposed new four-year national supermarkets agreement that covers about 100,000 supermarket employees, after a FWC full bench queried the rules for re-introduced split shift arrangements.
Businesses should consider running randomised trials to inform evidence-based policymaking in the workplace and improve productivity, Assistant employment minister Andrew Leigh has told a HR leadership conference in Sydney.
The SDA is urging the FWC to rule that labour hire clauses in a proposed Aldi agreement are invalid because they circumvent the same-job, same-pay provisions recently introduced into the Fair Work Act.
The FWC has given a power supplier's worker an extra month to file his unfair dismissal application after accepting that he previously lodged one in the NSW IRC and wrongly pivoted to an unfair termination claim "due to confusion, rather than strategy".
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A migration agent accused of having active cases in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal after he started working for it as an associate must pay $12,000 towards its legal costs after pursuing an unsuccessful adverse action claim challenging his sacking.
In a signal to employers that they must have systems in place to ensure they promptly provide information the FWC requires to launch a protected action ballot, the Federal Court has imposed a substantial fine on waste giant Cleanaway for a short delay in the "time-critical" process, while warning that in more egregious cases larger penalties would be warranted.
The FWC has refused to further delay a sick legal secretary's unfair dismissal hearing after almost six years of adjournments, and will consider any further extension requests "vexatious".
Workers who subscribe to common "s-xual harassment myths" are 16 times more likely than others to use digital communications to s-xually harass their colleagues, according to a new paper that also suggests that employers had been poorly prepared for related issues arising from the pandemic-driven shift to working from home.
In a significant decision on principles of open justice, gas giant Santos has won confidentiality orders on its second attempt as it defends its sacking of a former outlaw motorcycle gang member accused of s-xually harassing a 22-year-old apprentice.
