An employee's unfair dismissal claim has been rejected after she failed to pay more than $7,000 in security of costs for the case, in which she claimed her emailed pictures of naked people's genitalia were "weird" and "unique" but not offensive or pornographic.
The average age of Australian workers is now 38.8 years, up from 36.6 in 1984, and workers in some industry sectors are ageing so rapidly that service delivery could be compromised, according to new research.
Telstra has been ordered to reinstate two employees after the AIRC found a management list of workers it proposed to make redundant "infected" the dismissal process and made it unfair.
The report of the Senate's inquiry into the Howard Government's proposed changes to right of entry laws, due today, has been delayed until next Monday, when the inquiry on exempting small businesses from making severance payments will also report.
The AIG is pushing the Howard Government to use its looming Senate majority to reduce the thousands of federal awards to just 20 industry-based instruments, introduce a Minimum Wage Commission similar to the UK’s model and forge a new division of state and federal responsibilities for setting minimum conditions.
About 400 workers remain on strike at BHP Billiton's Worsley alumina refinery expansion project in WA's south-west after unions yesterday rejected a settlement offer made following conciliation before the AIRC.
HREOC launches inquiry into employment for people with disabilities; $175,000 OHS fine for ANZ over multiple robberies at bank branch; and Patrick fined $115,000 for straddle-related OHS failures.
This week's BCA forum in Victoria illustrated how far the October election result has already shifted the IR goal posts, with a unitary system of regulation - something business leaders could until recently only dream about - described by the Prime Minister as not "shaking the foundations of anything", and by Opposition Leader Kim Beazley as "something that can be considered".
The Howard Government's legislation to reverse the AIRC's decision to extend severance pay obligations to small business will remove redundancy entitlements from one million employees, according to a Parliamentary Library paper.