A senior Qantas long haul flight attendant is seeking a finding in the Federal Magistrates Court that the airline discriminated against her because of her sex, pregnancy and family responsibilities.
The AIRC's redundancy test case full bench will reconvene today to hear a bid by employers to discount severance pay entitlements for redundant workers who are entitled to the relatively generous pro rata long service entitlements under State laws.
Unions say Victoria is overreacting to a non-existing problem with its plan to introduce new emergency powers legislation to halt strikes threatening essential services and key projects, while the Federal Government has rejected the State's bid to win the power to seek to end bargaining periods.
An AIRC full bench has refused to accept there is a national standard on making substitute days when Anzac Day falls on weekends, in newly-issued reasons for its decision to reject making a substitute public holiday for Victoria and Tasmania on April 26 for this year's Anzac Day.
The TWU has successfully varied the major federal transport award to include paid dispute resolution training leave, bringing it in line with other transport awards and agreements.
A tribunal has allowed a crime prevention officer to proceed with a claim that her employer discriminated against her when it asked whether she worked as a prostitute, while a court has awarded only "modest" damages to a woman it found had no ongoing medical or psychological conditions as a result of sexual harassment she had suffered.
The five-member AIRC full bench hearing the ACTU's work and family test case now has a woman member - replacing the all-male line-up that was to decide the crucial case.
Labor has today pledged to curb the "misuse" of regular casuals and launched a discussion paper that urges the introduction of regulations to confine casual employment to genuine short-term or irregular working arrangements.
The dismissal of a sheriff's officer for failing to declare his secondary employment as a security guard while receiving workers compensation payments was unfair, because he thought his employer was aware of the situation, the NSW IRC has ruled.
