Up to 2,000 manufacturing employees working on the construction of a new aluminum smelter in Queensland will be covered by a project agreement that implements the 36-hour week and puts severance payments into NEST, both of which are firsts for the State.
After being returned for a third term on Saturday, the Carr Government looks likely to continue to be able to push amendments to its IR legislation through the Upper House, as a large crossbench has been retained that gives Labor significant flexibility.
A drug company has broken new ground by paying for up to six months childcare costs for workers returning from parental leave and allowing them to keep their company car for three months after taking leave.
The Victorian branch of the AMWU has began sending out bargaining notices to close to 1,000 companies and is in the process of drafting its Campaign 2003 claims into an agreement that delegates will be serving on employers.
Moving discrimination rulings from HREOC to the courts hasn't led to a more "conservative" approach to the law or the automatic awarding of costs against losing parties, according to a new review.
The AIRC has made it clear that it won't automatically insert the provisions of the casuals' parental leave test case in awards, after it today rejected an AMWU bid to update the Graphic Arts Award.
An AIRC full bench has today upheld a ruling that a casino dealer was unfairly dismissed for placing a bet at an on-site TAB, in breach of a policy he claimed he did not know about.
An Aboriginal man sacked after he sat in a loader for a whole shift because it had no ignition key has unsuccessfully claimed that his employer failed to consider his cultural beliefs before dismissing him.