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.
Employers are advertising more often and in more channels to attract good applicants, says ANZ chief economist; and OECD urges Australia to develop better strategy for mature age workers.
The NSW IRC says Linfox was right to dismiss a truck driver who tested positive for amphetamine and methamphetamine, despite TWU concerns over the drug-testing procedure.
The new non-union agreement for Prime Minister John Howard's own department mandates that employees take at least five days annual leave, while any recalcitrants can be directed by department head Peter Shergold to have a break.
A female employee's longstanding susceptibility to panic attacks was no reason to reduce her $41,000 damages payout, a tribunal has ruled, after finding her male boss continuously pressed her to have sex with him.
Former US Labor secretary Robert Reich has warned against shifting to a US-style labour market, at today's launch of NSW unions' new $1m think tank, Working NSW.
