Artificial intelligence HR and hiring tools pose "significant risks" for workplaces, according to an equality law expert who is calling for an enforceable positive duty on employers, while a recruitment body has told a Senate inquiry there should be an industry standard.
The Federal Government has made a "technical assumption" that there will be a minimum wage increase of 3.5% this year, the FWC's expert panel heard yesterday, while Commission President Adam Hatcher lamented the "Catch-22" situation the Commission faces in weighing whether Canberra will fund any gender-based increases.
BHP has failed in another bid to win approval of a deal for its in-house labour hire arm, after it gave workers an "upbeat" deep-dive on the benefits, failed to explain detriments and left them in the dark on pay.
Shadow treasurer reiterates casual definition promise;Tribunal orders paramedics to drop bans; and Tight timeline for "frontline workers" Bill inquiry.
The ANMF is urging the FWC to use "right to disconnect" award variations make it harder for employers to cut costs by relying on "threadbare" staffing and refusing to roster enough workers on-call, while the NTEU wants casual academics paid to respond to students outside their working hours.
The registered organisations branch of the FWC has unveiled a compliance and enforcement policy in which "common interests" such as cutting red tape are described as being at the "centre" of its regulatory approach.
A group of DP World wharfies unfairly sacked for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 have failed to knock out a decision not to reinstate them, leaving a question hanging around the lawfulness of their employer's actions.
The FWC has lashed a HR consultant's "astonishingly poor" advice as contributing to the unfair dismissal of a long-serving manager whose redundancy process descended into accusations of serious misconduct, in part because of a mistaken belief that he emailed malware to his former employer.
As the Minns Labor Government prepares to introduce further IR amendments in NSW, the lawyer involved in one of the first adverse action cases brought under the Fair Work Act has told a conference the one thing he would not recommend is adopting the federal legislation's general protections provisions.
