Qantas, which today announced a record profit before tax of $965m for 2003-04, has announced plans to immediately pay a $1,000 bonus to its 35,000 Australian employees and boost paid parental and carers leave.
The Building Industry Taskforce still has some significant parliamentary hurdles to face before it can exercise its new powers to force witnesses to give evidence and hand over documents.
Today's ABS Wage Cost Index lends support to the Reserve Bank's suggestion last week that labour shortages are not yet driving up aggregate wages, with annual trend growth slipping to the lowest level since late 2002 and quarterly growth of just 0.8%.
A Victorian tannery has failed to convince the AIRC to overturn a finding that the redundancy selection process it undertook after a business downturn was unfair.
Cleaning contractors will be obliged to pay severance to workers when a contract comes to end, even when the workers move to the new contractor, after an important AIRC ruling last week.
More than 11 years after the Kennett Government abolished Victorian awards, hundreds of thousands of the State's workers are set to be covered by federal common rule awards, after the AIRC today rubber-stamped a consent deal for the transition to the new system.
The NSW Police Service has today been found vicariously liable for a male employee sexual harassing a female colleague, because it failed to take the necessary steps to educate employees and managers.
An employer had a valid reason to sack an employee for downloading MP3 music files, but was wrong to deny him the chance to delete them from his PC and to take advantage of a one month moratorium to remove sexually explicit material, the AIRC has found.
