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Police commissioner's vax mandate unlawful: Court

Queensland's departing police commissioner failed to properly consider the human rights implications of two ultimately unlawful vaccination mandates issued at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Supreme Court review has found.


Burke pledges to block double-dipping

Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke intends to amend the Closing Loopholes No 2 legislation so that "employee-like" workers in the gig economy and in road transport cannot "double-dip" in the federal and state IR systems.

Bill axes public sector pay cap, sees in "mutual gains" bargaining

The Minns Labor Government has introduced IR changes that "remove the power to cap wages for good" and replace it with a "mutual gains bargaining" system, while also boosting the NSW IRC's powers and restoring it as an integrated court and tribunal.

Red union president facing sack after appeal fails

The president of a nursing "red union" faces the sack from her hospital job after failing to persuade an appeal court that unauthorised media comments fell under protected industrial activity.


Suspended manager loses anonymity bid

The NSW IRC has rejected a senior public servant's bid to suppress her suspension for alleged corrupt conduct, holding to the notion of open justice while questioning why she failed to make the application earlier.

Police prosecutor's WFH case dismissed

A prosecutor who says working from home one day a week improves his mental health has failed to budge Queensland Police's rejection of his flexibility request, with a tribunal supporting its contention that his best bet might be seeking a "suitable duties" plan.

Tribunal to reconsider whether it can expunge warning

In a significant ruling on its powers, the NSW IRC will reconsider a nurse's victimisation claims after overturning a finding it lacked the power to order that a disciplinary warning be removed from her file.

Decades of harassment caused psychological injury, claims firefighter

A tribunal has refused to throw out a female firefighter's workplace s-xual harassment claim involving allegations of "serious and sustained harassment and abuse" dating back almost 25 years, finding it reasonable that she believed making external complaints while employed would have jeopardised her career.