A management consultancy has lost a provisional bid to restrain competition from two former top executives who left the company late last year to start their own rival business.
A hairdresser who was dismissed while pregnant has been awarded $1,338 in damages, with the Federal Magistrates Court finding that her pregnancy was not the reason for her sacking but it was why she was sent home for a week without pay.
The Prime Minister and state and territory leaders have agreed on a timetable for cross-border recognition of skills and qualifications in a bid to chip away at economic inefficiencies and address skills shortages.
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Under new legislation introduced to the Victorian Parliament, the state's new Workplace Rights Advocate will review all new agreements in the public sector to ensure they pass the no disadvantage test that has been scrapped by the Federal Government's Work Choices legislation.
CFMEU WA branch assistant secretary Joe McDonald has kept his State right of entry permit after the WA IRC yesterday threw out a case against him brought by the State's Building Industry and Special Projects Inspectorate.
Regulations for the Work Choices legislation will be released late this month, ahead of the main amendments taking effect in March, says Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews, while consolidation versions of the revised Workplace Relations Act are starting to emerge.
An ACCI proposal to use the upcoming wages and classifications review to collapse existing pay structures to four minimum levels has provoked ACTU demands that the federal government reject it because it will cut workers' pay and discourage skills development.
The AiG has warned against the award rationalisation process becoming a "levelling-up" exercise in which the most generous current award rates would be incorporated in Australian Pay and Conditions Standards, while it has called for a new manufacturing award to be one of the first rationalised awards determined by the AIRC.
Queensland barrister Andrew Herbert has been appointed to replace the AWU's David Cragg on the Award Review Taskforce reference group, which has its first meeting in Canberra tomorrow.