Proposed pay equity fund available to both employers and employees; FSU starts CBA bans on Thursday, rolling stoppages to follow; Waterfront warrior to chair Telstra board; MUA says maritime security plan fails to address casuals and foreign guest workers; Management withdraws plan to dock pay at State Trustees; Bargaining to start for Victorian State school support staff; and AIRC refuses to reinstate child protection worker.
A Latham Labor Government would establish a pay equity fund to finance equal pay cases and encourage best practice in the private sector, Opposition Leader Mark Latham announced today.
The Department of Finance and Administration is likely to receive a flood of backpay claims from former Federal Parliamentary staff members, after a court ruled the department had failed to pay a retrenched Opposition staffer's pro rata long service leave and provide proper notice.
As critical labour shortages start to emerge in areas of the economy, international HR expert Dr John Sullivan says smart employers should closely track the most effective ways of attracting the people they end up hiring - and spend their recruiting budgets accordingly.
Small and micro businesses must not only have sexual harassment policies to avoid liability for employees' misconduct, but they must take active steps to prevent harassment, a tribunal has ruled in finding against a HR and recruitment consultancy and ordering it to pay $5,000 in damages.
A sacked employee who lodged his unfair dismissal claim 147 days late has had it accepted, because various advisors appeared to have failed to tell him about the 21-day time limit.
PM warns wall to wall Labor will hand back IR to unions; Building Taskforce launches new prosecution; Queensland Government recovers record $8.5m for employees; LHMU seeks to cover Tasmanian prison workers; BCA says offshoring a positive development that won't cut Australian wages; New website for NSW IRC; and most bosses using ineffective "sink or swim" approach with workers, says report.
The Federal Court has imposed large penalties on the CFMEU and an organiser and delegate, after last month finding that they discriminated against a worker on a building site who refused to join the union.
The Disability Discrimination Act has been "relatively ineffective" in reducing discrimination in employment, the Productivity Commission has found in its review of the legislation.
