A full bench of the AIRC has quashed a decision on the timing of wage increases paid under five Telstra enterprise agreements - which the CPSU at the time claimed was worth $1.8 million to employees.
In an important decision on post-Electrolux bargaining delivered just before Christmas, a full bench of the AIRC has found that salary sacrificing provisions in an agreement pertain to the employment relationship.
In the largest ever unfair contract payout ordered by the Queensland IRC, a small Queensland mining contractor has been awarded $414,250 after it went to the expense of buying a new drill on the promise of long-term work.
In an important ruling, the Queensland IRC has opened the door for employees to use the State's unfair contract jurisdiction to recoup the 15% gap between their usual pay and workers' compensation payments.
A senior Qantas flight attendant has been awarded $25,000 in damages after the airline discriminated against her by refusing her access to her accrued sick leave because she was pregnant, not sick.
The AMWU has won an interlocutory injunction blocking an employer from sending offshore the work of seven manufacturing employees, after the Federal Court found the company might have discriminated against the workers because of their entitlements under an agreement.
In a crucial decision for the labour hire sector, a majority of the Industrial Appeal Court of WA has upheld an appeal against an earlier ruling on the employment status of two construction workers, holding they were independent subcontractors.
BlueScope Steel has welcomed the AIRC's decision to end its protracted and costly bargaining battle with the ETU at its Western Port plant in Victoria, but warned that more manufacturers are likely to face stand-downs while the plant is recommissioned and a consistent flow of steel is restored.
Fairfax's The Age newspaper discriminated against a female editor when it failed to provide her with the company car it had offered to the previous male editor, a tribunal has ruled.
