Heinemann Electric Pty Ltd incorrectly interpreted the Work Choices prohibitions on strike payments when it refused to pay workers who engaged in protected bans on overtime, while the "counterproductive" laws were partly responsible for escalating the bargaining dispute into a 48-day strike, Victorian Workplace Rights Advocate Tony Lawrence has found.
Telstra will tomorrow try to convince an AIRC full bench that private arbitrations of disputes must be conducted in strict legal terms, largely without considering notions of industrial fairness.
Organisations that have achieved equal numbers of men and women in executive roles and provided allowances to cover car parking costs in the final trimester of workers' pregnancies are among 131 employers of choice for women in 2007.
Bonus scheme excluded when calculating whether salary within unfair dismissal income cap; 5% of labour force underemployed, says ABS; and Other countries looking to 457 visa model, says paper
A restraint of trade clause that prevented a former Perth funeral parlour manager from working in the same industry after leaving the company has been found to be unenforceable by the Western Australian Supreme Court.
Shadow IR Minister Julia Gillard has refused to rule out setting a cap on the number of employees for small businesses to be exempt from unfair dismissal laws under Labor's planned workplace law changes.
The union representing Qantas international pilots has this morning launched a Federal Court challenge to the sale of the airline to private equity buyers, saying that if it goes ahead, all members' jobs will be transferred to the low-cost, low-pay Jetstar subsidiary by 2015.
Couple sacked for being trouble, not for union involvement, says Federal Court; AMWU food division challenge before the court; Independent Contractors Act to commence March; and Della Bosca intervenes in dismissal case involving OHS issues.
The ABCC has begun a coercion and false representations action involving potential large penalties against the CFMEU's Victorian construction branch and three delegates, alleging they forced a building contractor to sign an agreement and join the industry super fund before he could start work on a mining construction site.
A full bench of the NSW IRC has upheld a finding that the sacking of a court officer for both harassment and sexual harassment was unfair, but said it made its ruling "not without hesitation" and warned that "no employee who engages in harassment of any kind could take any comfort from our decision".
