Nine months after reaching agreement in-principle, the Bracks and Howard governments have finally settled the terms for moving all Victorian workers to the federal award safety net.
A local government authority has been ordered to pay $17,000 damages to a manic depressive man, after a tribunal failed to accept the council's defence that it had banned him from his workplace because he was an OHS threat.
A builder's labourer made redundant by a major construction contractor after 23 years service has won a year's notice, in a s106 unfair contract ruling by the NSW IRC.
Virgin Blue employees who have been with the company since its early days will receive free shares worth up to $6,000 when the company floats in December, while the company will also provide the opportunity for workers to sacrifice up to 20% of salary to buy shares.
In what is shaping to be a test case on pregnancy discrimination, a worker claims internet company TPG disadvantaged her when it put her in an acting rather than permanent management role after learning she was pregnant and then denied her request to resume work part-time.
Fate of higher education IR changes now in hands of four crossbench senators; Cole committee submissions due November 30; Think tank proposes opting out of awards, regional pay rates; Growth in global labour deals; Baby Boomers in SA workforce falling away rapidly; and Emails make managers stressed: survey.
As the debate over executive pay continues, a new guide released yesterday by the BCA warns that remuneration should reward performance, not failure, and that no executive should be involved in deciding his or her remuneration.
A radical new agreement covering Heytesbury Holdings' vast cattle stations in northern Australia restructures pay to recognise that workers are likely to put in more than eight-hour days.
Employers must comply with new amendments to sex discrimination laws that take effect next week and could model their approach on best practice examples provided by big companies such as Westpac, IBM and ANZ, according to HR consultant Juliet Bourke.
Australia needs a more balanced approach to skills formation to counteract the current trend towards polarisation into high skill, high reward and low skill, low reward occupations, a Senate committee inquiry into skills shortage has found.
