Bench issues reasons for 15% aged care rise; Boland to conduct safety review; Tudehope returns to IR portfolio in Opposition; Entitlement Bill's super provision to remedy shortcoming, says Digest; and Enforceable undertakings for UTS, Uniting Agewell.
A tribunal has dismissed a male lawyer's s-x discrimination case, after he accused a law firm of not hiring him because it favoured female candidates, claiming that he experienced a greater degree of humiliation because of the "very attractive and beautiful" interviewers.
Wall-to-wall Labor governments across mainland Australia provide the opportunity to re-introduce the principle of "safe rates" into the transport industry by the end of the year, according to the new NSW Treasurer, Daniel Mookhey.
New NSW Labor upper house member and former IR academic Sarah Kaine has used her inaugural parliamentary speech to decry the "cult of individualism" that has led to the loss of labour market safety nets, while hailing the recent political shift towards restoring workplace "dignity".
A new research paper claims that multi-employer bargaining in the air-conditioning manufacturing industry could force low-productivity companies to collapse and reduce mid-performing companies' profits.
A NSW IRC full bench has quashed the rejection of an unvaccinated worker's bid for a one-day extension to challenge her sacking after a commissioner found it would cause prejudice and that she has little prospect of success, based on arguments her employer did not make.
A FWC full bench has rejected a solicitor's challenge to a $36,000 costs order and will report him to the NSW Law Society over his misconduct in accusing another tribunal member of being a "Nazi" and taking bribes.
An industry group is hoping to press ahead with a pioneering multi-employer agreement for heating, ventilation and air conditioning businesses in NSW, after the AMWU provided reassurance that it remains committed to negotiations derailed by a contested union election.
In ordering a witness to attend a hearing in person, a NSW IRC member has highlighted "real pitfalls when evidence is not given in person" and emphasised that despite the widespread acceptance of virtual appearances at the height of COVID-19, there is no "presumption in favour of granting an order that evidence be given by [audio-visual link]".
A Federal Court majority has today dealt a hammer blow to NSW's and Victoria's pursuit of employers alleged to have avoided long service leave entitlements to casuals, ruling that a tribunal's reading of the Fair Work Act's LSL provision produced an "absurdity" whereby employers received "no warning" they could be held criminally liable for supposed non-payments.