The day after the NSW IRC awarded public school and TAFE teachers a 12% pay rise over two years, a full bench of the Commission has granted the same increase to the State's Catholic school teachers - but with additional one-off rises for teachers in promotional positions.
The Federal Court has found a company manager guilty of contempt after he reneged on a promise to give additional work to a truck driver after he launched a damages claim against the company.
Union members are much more likely to have fixed start and finish times, RDOs and perform shift work, while almost a million employees are regularly working unpaid overtime - just short of the number paid for overtime, according to a new ABS survey.
An AIRC member has today found that notices of intended industrial action can be properly served by fax, after another member decided last month that they must be served personally or by registered post.
NSW public school and TAFE teachers have won a 12% pay rise over two years, after a NSW IRC full bench this afternoon handed down a 235-page decision on their special case pay claim and work value case.
Victorian unions will argue against the bid by the private superannuation industry to intervene in the Victorian common rule test case, while industry funds will seek to intervene to oppose the private super interests, when the AIRC begins hearings in August.
A super fund discriminated against a worker who was retired because of a psychiatric condition when it paid his $310,000 retirement benefit to a trustee rather than directly to him, a tribunal has found.
The Bureau of Meteorology has boosted its paid maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks and allowed partners to take up to a week of their personal leave after the birth of a baby, under a new enterprise agreement.
Employers covered by federal awards will continue to have a single national standard for severance payments, after the AIRC today rejected a bid by peak employer bodies for standards to vary state by state to allow for differing long service leave arrangements.
