Hydro Tasmania has doubled its paid parental leave for the primary caregiver to 12 weeks and provided new protection for employees against individual legal liability, under the terms of a new agreement certified by the AIRC yesterday.
In a far-reaching bid to stem job insecurity, the NSW Labor Council will early next week lodge a test case application that, if granted, would give casual workers the right to convert to permanent, establish a set of criteria for contracting out, and give host rates and conditions to labour hire workers.
Court knocks back bid to boost coal super contributions; Senate committee urges new employer incentives to create part-time jobs for mature workers; Victoria Police update hair policy to accommodate male officers; and Bus drivers strike in Melbourne and Adelaide.
The AIRC has refused to certify an agreement for employees at Liquorland outlets in Queensland until the parties overcome several deficiencies, including whether two related corporate entities can be regarded as a single employer.
In a ruling that underlines the importance of strictly applying procedural fairness when dismissing employees, a NSW IRC full bench has castigated a licensed club for withholding documents that could have established the innocence of a bar attendant sacked for theft.
PBR bargaining period terminated; AIRC ratifies first postal services industry award; Bench upholds 90kmh average speed requirement under new enterprise deal; and Sydney Airport workers win extension on redundancy stay.
A Crean Labor Government would boost the AIRC's ability to arbitrate bargaining disputes, according to its new Shadow Workplace Relations Minister, Craig Emerson.
