An employer held to have caused a psychological injury by imposing a COVID-19 vaccination requirement on a driver must pay more than $80,000 in compensation, plus medical costs, after its unreasonable ultimatum rendered him unable to work.
NSW IR Minister Sophie Cotsis says the Minns Government will only sign up to Federal Labor's proposed laws covering "employee-like" workers if they are at least as strong as those in her home state.
The Minns Government has announced a 4% pay offer for NSW public sector workers, plus a 0.5% superannuation boost, along with the creation of an interest-based bargaining taskforce headed by former FWC deputy president Anna Booth and former State IRC president Roger Boland.
As the NSW Minns Labor Government gears up for a major expansion of long service leave entitlements that will include portability for gig workers, IR Minister Sophie Cotsis says it has secured a record fine against Mosaic Brands for systemic LSL underpayments.
A tribunal has ordered a disability support service to pay a worker $10,000 damages and three months wages, after it failed to engage her because of her disability.
A two-year pay freeze is set to be imposed on NSW politicians earning more than a base salary and the State's high-earning bureaucrats as the Minns Labor Government vows to redirect the savings to "essential service" workers such as teachers and nurses.
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.
A tribunal has stayed a teacher's unfair dismissal claim while he awaits the result of his "working with children" check, after the NSW Department of Education sacked him for allegedly contacting a student on Grindr and then having s-x with him at school.
The ASU has welcomed an early NDIS review recommendation for the Albanese Government to collaborate with the states and territories to test a portable leave scheme, while the review panel says migrant workers should also enjoy the same standards as the domestic workforce.