An employer was justified in dismissing an employee for gross misconduct after she made a "deliberate, premeditated decision" to go to sleep under her desk during a night shift, the NSW IRC has found.
In an important ruling on the NSW unfair contracts jurisdiction, the State's Court of Appeal has overturned the NSW IRC's Reich v Client Server case, which found that a contract could be unfair solely because it was breached.
The WA Government and the ANF are this afternoon before the AIRC in another bid to thrash out a deal following yesterday’s decision by the Commission to end the union’s bargaining periods for six months - but not the Government’s.
The Howard Government's Electrolux legislation has today passed Parliament, while the other three bills introduced by Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews since the election have been referred to a Senate committee.
Sakata workers go back after deal struck with NUW; Shadow IR Minister clarifies stance on AWAs; Collective deals set pay in public sector but individual deals do the job in private sector; Blyth replaces Donnelly as WR Minister Andrews’ chief of staff; and Guide available to gender-specific scholarships legislation.
A full bench of the Tasmanian Supreme Court has upheld the extensive powers of the State's Industrial Commission, in a ruling endorsing the tribunal's order to reinstate 17 meatworkers who had resisted "sham" independent contractor arrangements.
The Howard Government has today re-introduced its legislation to exempt small businesses from severance pay obligations imposed by the AIRC's Redundancy Test Case ruling in March.
After initially offering AWAs to employees throughout its Australian operations, The Smith Family has struck a s170LJ certified agreement to cover its 300-plus workers. The deal includes a novel salary packaging arrangement that involves workers returning part of their packaging benefit to the employer.
