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The Queensland Supreme Court has made it clear that workers can claim discrimination on the basis of an absence of religious belief.

High Court grants special leave to OHS case; Federal Government to reintroduce small business unfair dismissal exemption legislation; Labor to oppose small business severance pay exemption bill; MEAA to seek shareholder support for retaining senior Fairfax editorial employees; Strikes at GlaxoSmithKline, Main Roads WA and Canon; and Correction to article on proper service of notices.

The Federal Court has today found that the CFMEU (construction and general division), an organiser and a delegate discriminated against a worker on a construction site who refused to join the union.

A retail worker who suffered "appalling and sickening" sexual harassment has won $19,000 in damages.

Notices that a party is to take industrial action must be served by registered post rather than by fax, the AIRC has ruled.

Nigel Hadgkiss has been appointed the permanent head of the Building Industry Taskforce, after being seconded from the Australian Crime Commission in October 2002.

The NSW IRC has questioned the competency of a worker's representative who advised him to proceed with a shaky dismissal claim lodged 35 days out of time.

The AIRC will approve a set of substandard AWAs if it receives undertakings from the employer that base rates will be adjusted to reflect the Commission's annual safety net review decisions.

AMWU launches new equal pay claim; Super law changes to accommodate same sex partners; Bank of Ireland head resigns after accessing inappropriate material on internet; Flight attendants say Qantas preparing to move one in four long haul cabin crew jobs offshore; Costs ordered against lying employees; DEWR starts compliance campaign in construction; and AIRC expands eSubs email notification system.

Casual university employees have won a higher loading and - for general staff – the right to convert to permanent under an award variation agreement reached between the universities and the five unions that cover them.