An employee whose rostered shift times were changed because she had been absent from work with influenza was discriminated against on the basis of her impairment, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found.
A senior AIRC full bench has heavily criticised a Commission member for delays, legal errors and poor processes that have held up the certification of a s170LK agreement lodged with the Commission some 13 months ago.
More than 1,000 Tasmanian social and community services workers look set to receive a pay rise and revised award classifications, after the Tasmanian IRC accepted that their work value had increased.
A new agreement covering more than 800 employees of the Freedom furniture store chain gives couples the ability to take 39 weeks concurrent unpaid parental leave.
Strong economic growth could drive up wages in 2005, says Reserve; Work and family debate needs new focus on work patterns of fathers, says new study of children's views about their parents' work; Free trade deal threatens domestic jobs, says ACTU; AIRC chairs bargaining between Victorian public service, while prison officers back at work; Substantial frontbench reshuffle expected after Beattie's big win; Federal Magistrates Court now hearing 65% of federal discrimination claims; and ILO says benefits of eliminating child labour outweigh costs.
Pacific National's new agreement, which has been voted up by its 2,400 employees, will introduce a single pay system and simplify rostering, Patrick chair Chris Corrigan told the conglomerate's AGM.
Around 800 call centre and clerical employees of financial services provider GE Capital have received improved leave provisions and a 4% wage increase over three years under a s170LK deal which bypasses the ASU.
A full bench of the AIRC has certified a multi-business agreement between McDonald's and the SDA for the food chain's WA franchises, finding nothing objectionable in a union encouragement clause similar to others knocked out previously by the Commission.
One in four Victorians are low paid workers earning less than $13 an hour, a proportion that has remained unchanged since 2000, according to a new Victorian Government study.
An increase in apprentices is the Victorian branch of the ETU's priority claim in its latest bargaining round with the state's electricity distributors, which it will back up with industrial action beginning next week.
