Transport industry employers plan to vigorously oppose the TWU (NSW branch's) ambitious protection of entitlements test case claim, which it lodged in the NSW IRC this week.
A union strategy to win outstanding entitlements for former Woodlawn miners is in tatters, after a court halted a development that was to fund the payout.
HREOC is urging employers to do more to prevent sexual harassment of women in the workplace, after a review of complaints confirmed it persisted as the dominant form of reported sexual discrimination, despite being outlawed for almost 20 years.
Large increases in the NSW public sector this year have led to a big rise in national public sector pay growth to 1.6% in the September quarter and 4.7% over 12 months, according to the ABS Wage Cost Index, released today.
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.
