Long-distance owner/drivers and small fleet businesses will tomorrow morning continue their campaign for national minimum cartage rates with rallies around the country.
Operators at Mobil's Port Stanvac refinery in South Australia have won a 7% pay rise over two years and retained their existing hours arrangements under a new two-year deal with the NUW.
The New South Wales Court of Appeal has upheld a finding that a female police officer acquired Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after being exposed to hundreds of cases of child abuse.
Employers risk contravening procedural fairness requirements under federal unfair dismissal laws if they fail to give an employee notice of the reasons for terminating their employment before making a decision to proceed with a dismissal, an IRC full bench has ruled.
An abbatoir worker and meatworkers' union delegate who was sacked after a torrid nine-month lockout at the G&K O'Connor meatworks at Pakenham, Victoria, has temporarily won his job back, after the Federal Court found he might have been unlawfully dismissed for being a union delegate.
At the same time as the NSW government and teaching unions are at loggerheads over the introduction of performance appraisals, the ACT teaching union has accepted a deal that introduces such a system.
In a landmark ruling, the ACT Supreme Court has found that employers have a duty to establish systems to prevent violence against employees in the workplace.