The High Court will on Tuesday morning deliver its crucial decision on the States' and unions' constitutional challenge to the Work Choices legislation.
A woman with a gambling addition has failed in her bid to claim that her employer's refusal to pay salary maintenance when she moved to Perth to escape Victoria's gaming machines amounted to indirect discrimination.
The ETU in Victoria is getting legal advice on whether the Federal Government's latest change to the construction industry code of practice - which has thrown bargaining in the State's electrical contracting sector into chaos - is unlawful.
Employees aged over 50 at the Australian Catholic University will be able to ease down to part-time work while retaining full-time superannuation benefits as part of a new plan to retain older workers and create openings for new employees.
The Federal Court has today ordered the reinstatement of two National Union of Workers delegates, after finding their employer breached the Work Choices freedom of association provisions when it selected them for redundancy.
The NSW IRC has ordered the reinstatement of a court official who was sacked over allegations of harassment, including s--ual harassment outside the workplace, after finding his conduct was part of an inappropriate but not unlawful "pub culture."
In what is understood to be the first decision of its kind, the NSW IRC has joined the receivers and managers of a hotel as respondents in an unfair dismissal action launched by the hotel's former housekeeper.
The Bracks Government has promised to protect workers not covered by Work Choices by establishing a new award-based standard that includes the "right to request" provisions scrapped by the new federal legislation, if it is returned to office on November 25.
A bid by Qantas longhaul pilots for a finding that the airline unlawfully damaged their interests with its plans to move four aircraft to Jetstar has hit severe turbulence, after the Federal Court today threw out the claim.
A NSW IRC full bench has overturned the summary dismissal of a company's long-serving supervisor for receiving, viewing and storing pornographic material, and recommended the employer strengthen its purported zero tolerance policy and install a firewall to block similar material entering its IT system.
