The Federal Government has granted a last minute extension to construction industry employers who stood to be caught from today by the new requirement to pay fringe benefits tax on contributions to employee entitlement funds.
With anti-discrimination legislation proving limited, a Sydney academic today said that contract law could provide an effective tool for employees seeking to enforce employer promises of work/life balance.
Emerson re-introduces good faith bargaining bill and to speak at National Press Club; Noye takes over as FSU's assistant secretary; MUA members to stop work on April 6; Discrimination laws too soft on recruitment and selection, says paper; Bills digest canvasses sunset clause for legislation allowing male-only scholarships; Fedex ordered to pay US$3.2m for sexually discriminating and retaliating against female driver; and finalists announced for work and family awards.
A Latham Labor Government would introduce a means-tested 14-week "baby care payment" that would pay the equivalent of the federal minimum wage, after a five-year phase-in, to "the vast majority" of mothers regardless of whether they are in paid work.
A senior member of the SA IRC has raised serious practical difficulties with the concept of joint employment, in a ruling that might influence the final form of the State's Fair Work Bill.
Governments will have to boost funding for family care to allow women to increase their participation in the workforce as the population ages, according to a visiting UK professor who will speak at a work and family conference in Brisbane on Thursday.
In the first test of the AIRC's new power to issue interim s127 orders to halt alleged industrial action, the Commission has refused an employer's urgent bid to block a stopwork that was to start within four hours of the application.
Two long-serving employees who were sacked after they absconded from work to attend a strip show could have succeeded in their dismissal claim had they been honest about their whereabouts, the Queensland IRC has found.
A handyman who was engaged as a short-term casual but consistently worked a 40-hour-week has been allowed to proceed with an unfair dismissal claim, in a Queensland IRC ruling that builds on the AIRC's recent Parkview and Bath Arms decisions.
