We're not IR extremists, says PM; Wesfarmers delayed until next week; Victoria to seek broad definition of matters pertaining in next week's test case; Today marks centenary of Conciliation and Arbitration Act; $26m payout to former Ansett workers; and AIRC full bench overturns reinstatement of DEWR employee sacked for credit card fraud.
A female underground mine technician has won a two-year battle to establish that she was unfairly dismissed when her employer made her position redundant while she was on maternity leave. It then failed to provide her an alternative position with comparable status and equivalent pay.
An employer was less than considerate towards a working mother when it unilaterally changed her working hours, but it didn't unfairly dismiss her for failing to start on time, the AIRC has ruled.
BHP Billiton's approach to disciplining train drivers at its Pilbara iron ore operations has been put under the microscope in two new WAIRC full bench appeal rulings.
A downward trend in wages in private sector agreements has been reversed, coinciding with a warning from the Reserve Bank's deputy governor that continued economic expansion will require greater productivity and better matching of labour supply and demand.
In a move condemned by both the ANF and UnionsWA, the WA ALP Government has taken the first step towards its flagged non-union collective agreement, sending out letters directly to the State's 12,000 public-sector nurses spelling out what it says is its final offer.
Aerospace company Hawker de Havilland has this morning won an interlocutory injunction restraining unions from taking protected action over bonus payments at its Fishermens Bend site in Melbourne.
Australia Post was right to dismiss an employee who told co-workers "I'll stab the lot of you" while holding a knife used to open mail bags, the AIRC has ruled today.
A NSW IRC full bench has upheld a finding that a chief executive was treated unfairly when he was lured to the job by an executive search company's misleading representations. However, it cut his severance payment from 18 months to 10 months – a reduction worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
