In a rebuff to Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews and the ATO, an AIRC full bench has found the Commission has the power to order an employer to notify employees that a union is visiting a workplace to investigate possible breaches, while stressing that the right of entry provisions should be interpreted in a reasonable, commonsense way.
A soft drink company has been ordered to pay $8,500 for discriminating against a worker with a visual impairment by excessively reducing his hours after receiving medical safety advice.
A hairdressing chain discriminated against a pregnant apprentice when it changed her status from working in a fixed location to a "floater" who could be required to travel to a different salon within Brisbane each day, a tribunal has found.
New Productivity Commission research shows that Australia's workforce participation rate is the fifth highest in the developed world - much higher than is generally understood - but that matching world's best practice in poor-performing demographics would expand the nation's labour force by more than 600,000.
The ALP is planning to restore policies from the AIRC's family provisions test case ruling, including giving parents the right to request an extension of unpaid parental leave to two years and giving new parents' the right to request part time employment on returning to work, at its national conference in April.
The Federal Court has imposed a $125,000 penalty on the ETU, after finding it breached the Trade Practices Act when it insisted that Edison Mission only engage electrical contractors who had union enterprise agreements at a power station construction site.
Skills shortage boosts professional salaries by up to 15%, says APESMA; New numbering system for AIRC decisions; 90% vote for new ABC Learning agreement, according to LHMU; OWS targets regional centres; and ACCC issues business collective bargaining guide.
In the first completed prosecution of its kind by the OWS, a Canberra restaurant has today been fined $64,000 and ordered to pay $3,800 plus interest in underpaid wages to two chefs it employed from the Philippines under subclass 457 temporary work visas.
Employees who take workers' compensation leave are absent due to injury under the Workplace Relations Regulations and are protected from unlawful dismissal, the Federal Magistrates Court has ruled.
An AIRC full bench has quashed orders for the Australian Electoral Commission to disclose information to unions to help compile voting rolls for a secret ballot for industrial action at the ABC last year.
