One in every two Work Choices termination of employment applications claims that the worker was dismissed for unlawful discriminatory reasons, according to the AIRC's President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice.
Former Ansett employees will next week receive another $46.9 million in a sixth dividend payment from company administrators after a creditors meeting yesterday approved pooling arrangements for the 40 companies in the failed airlines group, ending lengthy Federal Court proceedings on the carve-up
Employer greenfields agreements provided the lowest pay increases of all collective deals lodged in the June quarter this year, according to the latest data from DEWR.
CCIWA to coordinate national advisor program; Memorial service for building union veteran John Cummins; Only five top companies have 25% women as directors and executives, says EOWA; Poor response so far to ABC ballot; and ACCC releases more details on CFMEU action.
In the first decision of its kind, the AIRC has refused on public interest grounds an employer's application to terminate a state-registered agreement preserved under Work Choices, accepting the NUW's submission that if it did so, employees would fall back onto the AFPCS only.
NSW emloyers of workers aged under 18 face prosecution if pay and conditions are lower than the relevant State award, under new child employment laws announced by the Iemma Government today.
The Federal Government and the ABCC today intervened in two separate cases before the AIRC to stop it granting orders for secret ballots for industrial action.
A barrister on the NSW Government's legal team during the States/union High Court IR challenge has acknowledged that the judges' questions from the bench during the case were unlikely to change the views of commentators who believed a Court majority would decide in the Commonwealth's favour.
Pow Juices Pty Ltd - the company at the centre of a storm over offering AWAs to employees that cut their pay - has today conceded that it breached the Workplace Relations Act by failing to pay 21 workers under the terms of their certified agreement.
