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.
Unions will have to take steps to ensure they comply with privacy laws when they compile information about workers, following an important Federal Court ruling that also clarifies the scope of the immunity from costs under s347.
The NSW Teachers' Federation executive will meet on Monday to plan a 48-hour strike, following the State Government's refusal to back down on its decision to ask the IRC to reopen the teachers' salaries case.
