The ALP is to establish a nine-member IR taskforce to continue its campaign against the Coalition's second-wave laws over the parliamentary Christmas break and into next year.
An employer that refused to allow an accountant to return to work full-time after maternity leave denied her not only a full-time income but also a "significant" bonus payment, according to the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal.
The ACTU's multi-million dollar television advertising campaign against the Work Choices legislation will continue until the next federal election, backed by local publicity strategies designed to defeat Coalition MPs in marginal electorates.
In an early taste of the post-Work Choices environment, rail operator Pacific National this week locked out part of its workforce in retaliation for industrial action against it.
The Federal Government has told the Senate that it is not its intention under Work Choices to halt individual cases before the state courts and commissions, and it would address this in the regulations.
Small business employees will lose their entitlement to redundancy pay before Christmas under the Federal Government's Work Choices amendments, according to an industrial lawyer.
Committee consideration of the Government’s amendments to the Work Choices legislation will resume tomorrow, after the Government refused late this evening to accept Family First Senator Steve Fielding’s bid for employees who work public holidays to receive an extra day’s leave.
