Employers will have to be wary when advertising commission-only jobs, after Wizard Home Loans yesterday conceded it had engaged in misleading conduct in breach of the Trade Practices Act when it made representations to a mobile lending manager that he would earn far more than he ended up taking home.
The NSW public hospital nurses strike threatened for tomorrow is off, after both the State Government and the NSW Nurses Association agreed to put their pay dispute in the NSW IRC's hands.
With superannuation fund choice only two months away, ACTU secretary Greg Combet has called on the Howard Government to introduce three key changes to improve protection for workers' retirement incomes.
The Federal Workplace Relations Minister, Kevin Andrews, has described it as "not beyond the realm of possibility" that other states would follow Victoria and refer their IR powers to the Commonwealth if the Government relied on the corporations power to introduce its IR agenda.
VCAT says manager didn't discriminate when he said liked women lighter than 50kg; $45,000 payout to employee one of 179 sex discrimination settlements during 2003-04, says HREOC; and Goward to address age discrimination seminar next Monday.
Industrial Registrar goes public to correct the record; ABC appeals Barakat ruling; Della positive about prospects of High Court challenge; Telework inquiry submissions close May 27; NSW TAFE teachers to rally in August against plans to link AWAs with funding.
The trustee of the Victoria Construction Industry Long Service Leave Fund (CoINVEST) has failed in its bid to win leave to appeal against the certification of a non-union agreement that takes the employer - and its employees - out of the sector's State long service leave scheme.
Tasmania's Supreme Court has rejected a sex discrimination claim by a social worker who breached her employer's self-disclosure policy by insisting that she tell all clients upfront that she was a lesbian and a sex worker.
Worker shortages now prevail across the economy, putting labour productivity into reverse and driving employers to conduct more frequent salary reviews and offer more non-pay benefits, according to the Reserve Bank.
Victorian construction industry employers and the CFMEU have defended the AIRC's involvement in the recent negotiations for a new deal for the sector, saying Vice President Iain Ross - who heads the Commission's construction panel - was "scrupulous" in his approach.
