Employers who don't generally offer part-time or flexible employment are not obliged under federal anti-discrimination laws to allow full-time employees to return to work part-time after maternity leave, the Federal Magistrates Court has ruled today.
The AIRC has temporarily staved off industrial action by more than 500 bus drivers employed by Serco Australia, as the company considers a new proposal put forward by the TWU.
In a sign that wage pressure is building, growth in private sector enterprise agreements has hit a three-year high of 4.2% a year, according to the DEWR.
The country's leading unregistered representative body for HR practitioners faces being made respondent to a federal award that will bring its employees' conditions into line with tertiary education employment standards.
New hurdle for McDonald entry permit bid; Living Wage Case starts tomorrow; Administrator starts paying out $150m to former Ansett workers; and Senate Cole inquiry starts today in Canberra.
The AMWU is taking the recent attacks on its national secretary, Doug Cameron, so seriously that it has purchased a secure house and relocated him and his family there.
The Federal Court has today struck down a regulation restricting public disclosure of information by federal public servants, in a case brought by a union official and Customs officer who was all but barred by his department head from speaking to the media.
