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Changes to the Workplace Relations Regulations, which make it easier for employers to comply with record-keeping and pay slip requirements, have now been released.

Fair Pay Commission chair Ian Harper has signalled a new process to review this year's higher-than-expected minimum wage increase, including a tender to design a more formal mechanism to examine the economic impact of low pay determinations.

The NSW, Victorian and Queensland Governments have agreed to streamline their workers compensation schemes to prevent a feared exodus of national companies to the Federal Government's new self-insurance option under Comcare.

A Victorian hotel employer has been fined $5,000 and ordered to reimburse underpaid wages plus interest in one of the first completed prosecutions under Work Choices.

The Victorian Supreme Court today declined to issue injunctions to stop the LHMU from making public statements about a major cleaning contractor after the union gave undertakings not to repeat claims that the company was "dodgy", it didn't use appropriate cleaning products and that its buildings "stink".

Many families would like to access more paid parental leave, while relatively few want more unpaid parental entitlements, according to a newly-released university survey.

The private equity consortium that has won provisional Qantas board approval to take over the airline for $5.60 cash per share has today ruled out offshoring of maintenance functions, while Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon said there were no plans for offshoring other functions and that existing plans for reducing labour and other operational costs would continue under the new owners.

Two employees have been found personally liable to pay damages to a former client who suffered as a result of their professional advice, in a High Court ruling that challenges previous notions of the sole or vicarious responsibility of employers for workers' actions.

The Federal Court has ordered the CFMEU to pay $115,000 in penalties and costs for breaching the Trade Practices Act's secondary boycott provisions when it delayed a concrete pour and picketed at a construction site in Perth in 2004.

In an important private dispute resolution ruling that might provide an alternative channel to challenge unfair dismissals under Work Choices, the AIRC has reinstated three employees made redundant by Telstra. It found that flaws in the structure of the telco's HR management mean it is unable to comply with obligations to consult employees and their union about restructuring plans.