The MUA is exposed to a common law damages action from P&O Ports, after the AIRC last week issued a s166A certificate against the union over a "go slow" at the Fisherman Islands Terminal in Brisbane that has cut container movements by 25% and cost the company $125,000 a week.
A 15-year-old Sydney boy has failed to argue that he was unfairly discriminated against when TAB Ltd refused to allow him to work as a "payer/seller" in his father's TAB agency.
A new fact sheet from the US equal opportunity agency on the workplace rights of people with epilepsy says employers have no right to disclose an employee's condition to other workers, even where they witness an epilepsy episode and are concerned about their co-worker's welfare.
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews has this morning introduced legislation to outlaw bargaining fee clauses in state agreements made with corporate entities.
Maintenance workers are staying out in defiance of an interim s127 order issued in a bid to halt a stoppage that threatens to disrupt power supplies in the southern half of WA.
An investment company has avoided a finding that it was vicariously liable for the sexual harassment of a female employee, after establishing it had taken reasonable preventative steps.
There were no fireworks yesterday when one of the AIRC's new senior deputy presidents, former Employment Advocate Jonathan Hamberger, was formally welcomed to the institution in a ceremonial sitting.
Australia Post announces unilateral pay rise in bid to break bargaining deadlock; HSBC's Edward backtracks and says Labor committed to primacy of bargaining; RBA says labour demand/wage growth nexus might have been broken; and which of the two Coalition and two Labor governments over the past 32 years achieved the best labour productivity growth? New research comes up with a surprising answer.
A hotel manager was guilty of sexual harassment when he made comments to a co-worker and a third party that the worker liked boys, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found.
The IR Club "philosophy" still prevails in the AIRC and 12 of the first 16 Howard Government appointees to the Commission were Club members, Des Moore, of the Institute for Private Enterprise, told the HR Nicholls conference in Melbourne yesterday.