A convicted sex offender has failed to get permission to apply for a job as a high school teacher, despite a NSW tribunal finding that he was not a prohibited person for the purposes of seeking child-related employment.
AIRC stays reinstatement of News Ltd schooner drinkers; SA Commission failed to provide reasons for excessive compensation, says bench; Costs order stayed despite "slim" appeal prospects; Excellent director "too busy" to properly dismiss worker; and SA IRC rejects claim 15 months out of time.
Civil construction workers win 25% casual loading; CPSU seeks rule change to confirm Tenix coverage; Top employers perform better financially, says Hewitt; Unions prepare for campaign against Gulf War involvement; and NSW unions show off their treasures.
The SA IRC has reinstated a train driver and scolded his employer for failing to send him to an anger management course after he twice assaulted a colleague.
The NSW IRC has awarded a senior consultant more than $25,000 in a s106 unfair contracts ruling, after finding that his employer had wrongly concluded that his refusal to return to work meant he had abandoned his employment.
Just a week ahead of the tabling in Parliament of the Cole Royal Commission's final report, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott has released a consultants' report that says labour productivity in commercial construction is lagging well behind that in the Australian residential construction sector.
Resource sector employers need to start thinking about how they intend to manage the implications of a greying workforce, according to the Australian Mines and Metals Association.
Qantas and the FAAA's domestic and regional division have struck an in-principle deal that provides 2,400 flight attendants a 3%-a-year pay rise and a 6% lump sum payment, while unions are set to publish an open letter appealing to the airline to soften its hardline IR approach.
Victorian IR Minister, Rob Hulls, has attacked the decision by federal Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott to appeal against the AIRC's refusal to certify the non-union deal Grocon got up during its stand-off last year with the CFMEU.
