With superannuation fund choice only two months away, ACTU secretary Greg Combet has called on the Howard Government to introduce three key changes to improve protection for workers' retirement incomes.
The Federal Workplace Relations Minister, Kevin Andrews, has described it as "not beyond the realm of possibility" that other states would follow Victoria and refer their IR powers to the Commonwealth if the Government relied on the corporations power to introduce its IR agenda.
VCAT says manager didn't discriminate when he said liked women lighter than 50kg; $45,000 payout to employee one of 179 sex discrimination settlements during 2003-04, says HREOC; and Goward to address age discrimination seminar next Monday.
Industrial Registrar goes public to correct the record; ABC appeals Barakat ruling; Della positive about prospects of High Court challenge; Telework inquiry submissions close May 27; NSW TAFE teachers to rally in August against plans to link AWAs with funding.
The trustee of the Victoria Construction Industry Long Service Leave Fund (CoINVEST) has failed in its bid to win leave to appeal against the certification of a non-union agreement that takes the employer - and its employees - out of the sector's State long service leave scheme.
Tasmania's Supreme Court has rejected a sex discrimination claim by a social worker who breached her employer's self-disclosure policy by insisting that she tell all clients upfront that she was a lesbian and a sex worker.
Worker shortages now prevail across the economy, putting labour productivity into reverse and driving employers to conduct more frequent salary reviews and offer more non-pay benefits, according to the Reserve Bank.
Victorian construction industry employers and the CFMEU have defended the AIRC's involvement in the recent negotiations for a new deal for the sector, saying Vice President Iain Ross - who heads the Commission's construction panel - was "scrupulous" in his approach.
The NSW Court of Appeal has rejected an attempt by companies within a restructured group to stop the NSW IRC dealing with an unfair contracts claim against them on the basis that they weren't formed or incorporated until after the former employee making the claim had left the group.
NSW Attorney General Bob Debus yesterday introduced into Parliament his much-heralded legislation to restrict monitoring of workers by computers, cameras and tracking devices.