Employers should be careful to avoid wrongly attributing disabilities to employees, after a court awarded $15,000 in damages to a worker whose employer erroneously believed he was depressed.
The 670 Mitsubishi workers facing retrenchment from the company's Lonsdale engine plant will begin voting in 10 days on the redundancy package negotiated by the AMWU.
With industrial action put on hold for a week, Toyota and the ETU and AMWU (metals division) are scheduling further meetings over the unions' push for a nine-day fortnight for the car manufacturer's maintenance workforce.
The tightening labour market has led to call centre workers receiving average pay rises of 4.3% a year in the 2003-04 financial year, up substantially on the 2.95% average increase for the previous 12 months, according to a new salary survey.
The MUA is exposed to a common law damages action from P&O Ports, after the AIRC last week issued a s166A certificate against the union over a "go slow" at the Fisherman Islands Terminal in Brisbane that has cut container movements by 25% and cost the company $125,000 a week.
A 15-year-old Sydney boy has failed to argue that he was unfairly discriminated against when TAB Ltd refused to allow him to work as a "payer/seller" in his father's TAB agency.
A new fact sheet from the US equal opportunity agency on the workplace rights of people with epilepsy says employers have no right to disclose an employee's condition to other workers, even where they witness an epilepsy episode and are concerned about their co-worker's welfare.
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews has this morning introduced legislation to outlaw bargaining fee clauses in state agreements made with corporate entities.
Maintenance workers are staying out in defiance of an interim s127 order issued in a bid to halt a stoppage that threatens to disrupt power supplies in the southern half of WA.
