A car wash operator has been fined $3000 by the Federal Court for its "despicable" conduct in dismissing a worker for his intellectual disability, and the AIRC has ruled that the sacking of a Telstra "000" operator for failing to adhere to policies and procedures was fair despite her 26 years of service.
Supporters of former AMWU Victorian branch secretary, Craig Johnston, are planning a rally outside Victoria's County Court on Monday morning, where he is due to stand trial for his role in the Skilled Engineering raids in 2001.
The Federal Court of Australia has dismissed an appeal by an Australian Federal Police officer who claimed she was discriminated against when a review panel failed to take her depressive condition into account when considering her reinstatement.
The AIRC has dismissed a range of privacy and other concerns advanced by the ANZ and granted the FSU the right to a "walkthrough" of the bank's offices to investigate suspected time and wages breaches.
In more fall-out from the latest Telstra bargaining round, the secretary of the CEPU's NSW postal and telecommunications branch, Jim Metcher, is seeking to have the union's national vice-president, Colin Cooper, investigated under union rules for his role in a dispute over when the telco giant's employees get their pay rises.
ACTU president Sharan Burrow yesterday described it as the "labour partnership back in town", as the union body's executive met in Sydney yesterday with Opposition Leader Mark Latham ahead of next week's federal budget and with the federal election looming.
In the first prosecution of its type in NSW, a company and its directors have been fined $26,000 for failing to ensure a workplace was free from bullying.
After just three days of hearings in the crucial NSW Secure Employment Test case, rumours are circulating that a deal is looking likely. NSW Labor Council, however, denies this, and maintains it is confident of winning the case and will see it through to the end.
A full bench of the AIRC has upheld an earlier finding that a labour hire firm was the employee of a woman dismissed from her job as a re-buyer for Coles Myer.
The Australian Federal Police has tonight won the ACCI/BCA Gold Work and Family Award for provisions such as emergency care and generous paid leave that have substantially improved the work-life balance of its workers, while slashing attrition rates.
