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FWC seeking parties' views on online hearings manual

The FWC is seeking feedback within four weeks on its draft online proceedings framework, which outlines how matters can be heard in person, partly online, or fully online, at the discretion of the member.

No basis for manager's lockdown pay cut: Tribunal

A 20% pay cut imposed on a general manager while his employer shut its doors due to COVID-19 restrictions breached his contract and did not qualify as a JobKeeper-enabling direction, WA's IRC has held.

Sacking about choice, not employer jab "mandate": Tribunal

A FWC member has sought to emphasise that jabs are a matter of choice for employees, rather than a "mandate" imposed by employers, as a tide of COVID-19 vaccination-related unfair dismissal cases work their way through the tribunal.

"Predisposed view" did not scuttle consultation: FWC

A senior FWC member has thrown out a union challenge to a Commonwealth-owned business's COVID-19 vaccination mandate, while observing that having a "predisposed view" does not mean an employer has failed to genuinely consult about new policies.

Employer's HR became reactive, haphazard at COVID-19's peak

In a ruling that shines a light on "haphazard" HR practices in Victoria's Health Department at the height of the pandemic, the FWC has rejected claims it did not sack a hotel quarantine worker and lambasted it for meeting production orders with redactions that rendered evidence meaningless.

Workers would cop lower pay rises for flexibility: Report

Many workers would forgo a pay rise of up to 10% to secure more say in where and when they work, according to a study that says the Fair Work Act is failing to keep up with flexible practices, while other research says WFH employees save an average of $10,000 a year.

Qantas asking High Court to overturn outsource ruling

The TWU is decrying the Flying Kangaroo's decision to seek special leave from the High Court to challenge the full Federal Court ruling that it took unlawful adverse action when it contracted-out its ground handling functions to prevent workers from exercising their workplace rights to bargain and engage in industrial action, while rival Virgin Australia has told its workforce that it will end its wage freeze.


Friday deadline for Labor's minimum wage submission

The FWC's minimum wage panel has given Prime Minister Anthony Albanese until Friday to lodge a submission to this year's annual wage review, but has asked him to keep it to 10 pages.

Pandemic heightens need to address work "quality": Experts

Universities should tap into renewed, pandemic-fuelled interest in technology's effects on job satisfaction and productivity by offering related courses to employers and unions, say an international trio of leading HR and workplace academics.