The AIRC has questioned why Coles Supermarkets Australia provided only a little more than half of 11 minutes of security video footage of a sacked checkout operator as evidence in an unfair dismissal case.
Some 150 employees of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School have secured a day off each year for industry-related activities such as film festivals, plus a day of health and wellness leave, in their new certified agreement.
Skilled labour shortage the biggest supply constraint in construction, says survey; Salary survey suggests pay pushing up; 84% of non-permanent employees believe they are truly casual, says ABS; More US employers outsourcing key HR functions; Smith attacks linking of water funding to IR practices; and Andrews sets out his objectives for changing agreement-making.
TAFE students and teachers will join their university counterparts on June 1 in a national day of protest, as the higher education unions fight Federal Government moves to link IR change to funding.
The ACTU has today invited the Howard Government’s ministers to spend a day in the shoes of its new workplace ambassadors, a group of award-dependent workers on wages of less than $60,000 a year who the peak body believes will bear the brunt of the second wave of IR change to be pushed through the Senate after July.
With all results now declared in the AWU's WA election, newly returned secretary, Tim Daly, says he is confident the branch can operate as a united team despite the assistant secretary's position going to the challengers.
No post-Budget national wage case hearing tomorrow; Qantas sacks Sydney baggage handler after cocaine smuggling investigation; and Workers become isolated as work moves outside the office.
A female salesperson was sexually harassed when she overheard a butcher telling a male workmate he'd rather be in a spa with a bourbon in one hand and a c*** in the other, a tribunal has found.
The Queensland IRC has ordered an employee sacked for alleged misappropriation to pay $110,000 in costs, including indemnity costs, after finding she forced her former employer to incur "a huge amount" of costs but never intended to proceed with her unfair dismissal trial.
Labour shortages might be starting to drive up wages, with today's ABS data showing a trend quarterly increase in pay rates excluding bonuses of 1.1% for the March quarter and 3.9% annually - the highest year-on-year growth since the Bureau first released the statistics in 1998.
