The NSW Court of Appeal has found a security company vicariously liable for a bouncer headbutting a hotel patron who refused to leave when asked to do so.
Woolworths' success in obtaining an injunction to prevent a former senior executive from moving to Franklins has reinforced employers' powers to restrain key staff.
The last obstacle to a deal in the maintenance contractors dispute that threatened power supplies in the southern half of WA has been cleared - delivering United KG workers at Western Power's Muja and Kwinana power stations a wages/shorter hours package worth about 15% over three years, with 3% more for tradespersons.
Date set for bid to raise apprentice wages; Little common ground between Greens and Democrats on IR; Record number of AWAs lodged; Pump manufacturer reverses warnings issued over Hardie rally; and Directions hearing in SA redundancy test case.
Employer groups have been given until Friday to clarify their positions on some of the NUW's submissions in the KL Ballantyne matters pertaining case, which the parties agree is shaping up to be a test for the application of the High Court's Electrolux decision.
Corporations should implement affirmative action policies in the workplace, even if female employees are against it, ANZ chief executive John McFarlane said today.
Victorian union workers' compensation officers have had a victory in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in their bid to show that the State's WorkCover system is forcing workers to face lengthy delays and massive court costs in trying to win compensation claims.
An AIRC full bench has overturned an earlier Commission decision to reject a new redundancy provision in a key call centre award because it differed from the redundancy test case model clause relating to small businesses.
A detailed study of four hospitality industry workplaces with AWAs has found that organisational efficiencies were often gained at the expense of individual employees.
Qantas long-haul flight attendants claim the airline is training a replacement workforce ahead of their enterprise agreement expiring late this year, and will this week seek a finding from the AIRC that the training breaches the current deal.