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WA IRC doubles severance pay, retains small business exemption

Both employers and unions are claiming victory in today's WA redundancy test case decision, after the State IRC doubled the maximum severance payout to 16 weeks and ordered that it apply to all WA award and non-award employees, but refused to extend severance entitlements to small business employees.

High Court rules on meaning of reinstatement

An employer breached an AIRC reinstatement order when it put a worker back on the payroll but refused to provide him with work, the High Court has ruled today, in its keenly-awaited Blackadder judgment.

News in brief, April 26, 2005

High Court to rule on whether reinstatement obliges employers to provide work; Railcorp deal pays 4% a year to 15,000 workers; Noticeboard and right of entry clauses don't pertain, says AIRC; Labour hire worker not a casual, says AIRC; and High Court makes another ruling on employer safety liability.


Company discriminated against impaired worker: VCAT

A Victorian company has been ordered to pay $12,500 to a casual employee it stopped offering work to, with VCAT finding it discriminated against him on the grounds of impairment.

News in brief, Friday, April 22, 2005

Nelson goes west to John Holland; SA IRC give ticket inspectors protection; Labour hire a fad, says Federal Court judge; Independent contractors committee inquiry starts again Tuesday.



Labor launches living wage petition

Shadow Federal IR Minister, Stephen Smith, has today launched a petition calling on the Coalition to guarantee that no individual Australian would be worse off under its proposed changes to minimum wage fixing.