Some 10,000 farmers receiving drought assistance will have access to a streamlined process for seeking a 12-month delay in paying this year's safety net increase, following an AIRC decision yesterday.
The days of "touchy feely" HR are long gone and major employers are looking for HR practitioners with hard financial skills and business knowledge, according to a leading specialist HR recruiter.
NSW secure employment test case to be heard in May next year; Survey suggests wage pressure building; and MUA launches book on its former in-house film-making unit.
The CPSU's Victorian branch is considering running a transmission of business case in the Federal Court to protect a group of outsourced workers employed under AWAs, after an AIRC full bench today threw out its bid to clarify their benchmark award.
The Victorian branch of the ANF has today launched a campaign against a Government plan to replace current nurse-patient ratios with a computerised rostering program that the union says will increase workloads and drive nurses away from the public health system.
Pacific National is waiting for unions to respond to a proposal on driver-only arrangements for its NSW train drivers, which it says is the only issue standing in the way of an in-principle deal for more than 3,000 rail workers.
In a s106 ruling in a partnership case, the NSW IRC has ordered the owner of a recycling yard to pay his former business partner more than $315,000 after finding that the contract between the two was unfair.
Some 175 former Woodlawn mineworkers look certain to receive $5m in outstanding entitlements, after the NSW Opposition vowed to support special legislation introduced today by the Carr Government to overcome a court decision that stymied the payout.
Four employees of a failed company can seek redundancy payments in the AIRC without getting the permission of a court, following an important full bench ruling.
Employers who wish to avoid the AIRC using private arbitration provisions to issue interim restraining orders should review the wording of the dispute settlement provisions in their agreements, after a full bench today upheld the Commission's power to make such orders.
