Unions can validly initiate a bargaining period against an employer even if they don't get the name of the corporate entity quite right, following an AIRC decision.
Victoria's statutory portable long service leave scheme for the construction industry will get a chance to argue against a variation to an employer's agreement that allowed it to bypass the scheme, following an AIRC full bench decision yesterday.
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews has today introduced legislation to restore the exemption for small businesses from making severance payments.
The LHMU will amend its defence against the defamation action taken by ABC Childcare Centres managing director Eddie Groves to ensure it can admit evidence refuting his key contentions.
A major national jeans retailer that dismissed a worker after she questioned her rate of pay has been ordered to pay her the maximum six months compensation.
The Federal Court has today upheld a finding that the Australian Crime Commission discriminated against an intelligence analyst because of the time she took off to care for her sick son, but has cut in half the damages she won for non-economic loss.
The NSW IRC, in Court Session, has confirmed that the 12 month time limit for lodging s106 unfair contract claims applies regardless of when the contract was terminated.
The Bank of Queensland and the FSU have struck a new agreement that provides a 4.3% annual pay increase, introduces six weeks paid parental leave, extends loadings and overtime payments and makes weekend work voluntary, while on another front the union might be moving closer to industrial action at the CBA.
