Industrial relations, disputes & unions (580 items)

The "patchwork" of employment histories relevant to an underpayments claim should most likely be collated and made sense of by AI tools, a Federal Court judge has said, in directing the parties to agree on and propose a protocol for the task.

The Fair Work Commission has made its first Minimum Standards Order, covering 'employee-like workers'.

An employer was wrong to consider its longstanding mobile phone policy wasn't a "working arrangement" that could be the subject of a flexible work request, the Fair Work Commission has found.

The Fair Work Commission has made regulated labour hire arrangement orders for a warehouse where direct and on-hire employees already receive the same pay, and it has rejected a single labour hire worker's 'same pay' claim.

An employee who complained about workplace s-xual harassment and victimisation was a lower priority for an employer than the accused perpetrator, the FWC has noted, among other criticisms of an HR team's approach.

An employer displayed a "distinct lack of understanding" about its legal obligations regarding workplace sexual harassment allegations, and breached a clause in its enterprise agreement, the Fair Work Commission has found.

Conciliation conferences have become less about hearing both sides of a dispute and much more focused on offers, so amendments designed to reduce the Fair Work Commission's workload should also be positive for employers, a workplace lawyer says.

Modern award wage rates will rise by 4.75% from 1 July, and the national minimum wage will be increased to $1,004.90 per week ($26.44 per hour), the Fair Work Commission has ruled today.

The Fair Work Commission has made a single-interest employer authorisation for a proposed multi-enterprise agreement covering 269 employers and their workers.

Employers have lost two important appeals that challenged the Fair Work Commission's interpretation of Fair Work Act amendments.