In its first consideration of decade-old legislative amendments allowing the use of special measures to achieve substantive gender equality, the Federal Court has thrown out a claim by a disgruntled ASU member that the union's affirmative action rules are unlawful.
In an important decision on carers' responsibilities, the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal has found that a transport company indirectly discriminated against its former manager when it rejected her request to return to work part-time after having a baby.
A swathe of clauses covering benefits for employees' families, union consultation before change, compassionate leave expenses, English classes, compensation for damaged tools, repatriation leave and more have been declared outside the employment relationship by the AIRC, in a decision that rejects a bid by APESMA to expand its coal industry coverage.
The KL Ballantyne matters pertaining case will go ahead before the AIRC's Vice President Iain Ross on Monday, after the Commission's President told the parties he didn't have the power to accede to the AIG's request to refer it to a full bench.
Working parents would receive 10 hours a week of free care for each child aged three to four, childcare trainees would receive bonuses for completing their training and a plan would be developed to boost wages for childcare workers, under a Latham Labor Government.
The Opposition has accused the Coalition of planning to seize the States' IR systems and get more workers onto AWAs, following Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews' IR policy launch this morning.
A re-elected Coalition Government would tighten union right of entry laws; establish a mediation service for small business as an informal alternative to the AIRC; and boost non-union agreement-making; the Workplace Relations Minister, Kevin Andrews, announced today.
The National Union of Workers has won AIRC approval to amend its rules to maintain its coverage of commercial travellers now that they do much of their work via the phone and the internet.
