The sacking of a NSW Government agency's HR manager has been declared void by the NSW IRC in Court Session because the internal inquiry which led to her dismissal failed to meet the requirements of public sector management legislation.
A Geelong teacher has failed to establish that she was directly or indirectly discriminated against by theVictorian Department of Education and Training when a transfer between schools did not proceed while she was on sick leave from her former school.
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The NTEU has used jurisdictional arguments to defeat a deal between Monash University and the CFMEU and CEPU which, it maintained, was struck as part of the university's "divide and rule" game.
The SA IRC has thwarted the State Government's bid to end via arbitration the long-running public sector bargaining dispute, refusing its application for a new award in favour of further talks and then a ballot.
Each employee costs an average of $42,600 a year to employers, though private sector employees are cheaper, at $40,100, according to ABS data released today.
The day after the NSW IRC awarded public school and TAFE teachers a 12% pay rise over two years, a full bench of the Commission has granted the same increase to the State's Catholic school teachers - but with additional one-off rises for teachers in promotional positions.
The Federal Court has found a company manager guilty of contempt after he reneged on a promise to give additional work to a truck driver after he launched a damages claim against the company.
Union members are much more likely to have fixed start and finish times, RDOs and perform shift work, while almost a million employees are regularly working unpaid overtime - just short of the number paid for overtime, according to a new ABS survey.