The AIRC has upheld the dismissal of a Centrelink employee caught last year using the organisation's email system to send pornographic images to other employees and external recipients.
A solicitor who put untenable arguments to the AIRC in an unfair dismissal appeal might have committed professional misconduct, a full bench has found.
Keycorp appeals $1.9m payout ruling; ASU wins safety net increases for NT clerks; NSW teachers win 5.5% interim pay increase; Drug and alcohol tests rolled out in NT, NSW next; NSW to extend testing provisions to all transport workers; Victorian Trades Hall Council pays tribute to John Halfpenny; and CFMEU members raise $20,000 for Iranian earthquake appeal.
South Australia's Rann Labor Government has dropped some of the more controversial recommendations of the Stevens Review in its new draft IR bill, but the legislation still contains a swathe of changes that will significantly strengthen the State's safety net.
A plant manager who was dismissed for poor performance has won an unfair contracts claim, with the NSW IRC awarding him $679,456 plus $US111,848 in options.
A full bench of the NSW IRC has recommended trialling for a year a new drug and alcohol policy at BHP's Port Kembla steelworks following another attempt by the AWU to change the company's existing position, which it maintains is "draconian".
For our final story of the year, Workplace Express asked those involved in the big IR events of 2003 to rewrite the year so that it turned out exactly how they would have liked it to. This is what they said . . .
About 1,100 employees at four paper mills in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania have won a wage increase of 4.6% a year and an average superannuation increase of 2% over three years, while 2,600 Department of Veterans' Affairs employees have won new paid leave entitlements.
An electronic payments company chief executive lured to the job by an executive search company's misleading representations has won a total payment of $1.9m, in an unfair contract ruling by the NSW IRC.
