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.
The former personal assistant to the Australian Football League's talent manager is pursuing an unfair dismissal claim, after discovering that her redundant position was being re-advertised in what she says is almost identical terms to the job she used to perform.
The AWU and Rio Tinto have won conditional approval for their Pilbara consent award that shuts out other mining unions, after an AIRC full bench today threw out a bid for industrial regulation to be determined by the WA IRC.
Wage increases in federally-registered public sector agreements hit a six-year high of 4.8% a year per employee in the March quarter this year, while rises in private sector deals eased to 3.9% a year, according to the DEWR.
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The John Holland Group's announcement yesterday that it would introduce a paid parental leave scheme for its 1,100 salaried staff followed a “staff climate survey” in which employees nominated work/life issues as a priority.
The Queensland IRC has criticised the sharing of information between Woolworths and its self-insurance arm, reinstating a storeperson sacked after his manager was emailed his medical report.
In a significant development in Victoria's protracted electricity bargaining battle, the AIRC has suspended for six weeks the unions' bargaining periods with three of the companies at the centre of the dispute.