An agreement between Pizza Hut franchisee, Diab Services, and the SDA that provides employees with hefty pay rises but still fails the no disadvantage test has to be re-explained to the workers, the AIRC has ruled.
With 350 Queensland industrial agreements "frozen in time" by changes to state legislation, a full bench of the Queensland IRC has issued a principle on incorporating the deals into new or existing awards.
Some 20,000 Australian Tax Office employees have won a new five day parental leave entitlement on top of their existing 12 weeks maternity pay and an 8% pay rise over two years that is partially dependent on meeting performance targets, under a newly-certified agreement with the CPSU.
The AIRC has reinstated a long-serving Australia Post employee, who "through no fault of his own. . . appears to have had the singular misfortune of falling in the midst of a seriously corrupt group of Australia Post employees".
Private and industry super funds will maintain their involvement in the Victorian common rule awards test case, despite the heat being taken out of the super argument by the passage through the Senate of the Federal Government's choice of super fund legislation.
In an important ruling for Victorian employers and employees, a court has ruled that a long-serving regular casual employee of Melbourne Cricket Club is entitled to long service leave.
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Casual employees have won the right to unpaid time off for caring needs, births and bereavements, in what the ACTU says is the first formal leave provision for casuals.
