A pumphouse attendant at a steelworks who twice gave a co-worker an unwanted open-mouthed kiss has failed to convince the NSW IRC that his dismissal for sexual harassment was unfair.
The Federal Court has ordered a blind manufacturer to pay a total of $360,000 to the CFMEU Federated Furnishing Trades Division's Victorian branch and about 40 of its members, after finding the company had been underpaying night shift loading.
Just one in every 45 employees had their pay and conditions determined by AWAs or ITEAs in August last year, according to new ABS statistics that, according to Professor David Peetz, prove that claims about AWA density before the 2007 federal election were "wildly exaggerated".
Virgin Blue has failed to win support from its cabin crew for a new agreement negotiated with employees that would have increased rostered hours, reconfigured pay scales and cut wages for new starters.
The NSW Supreme Court has rejected a real estate agency's bid to enforce restraints in a former employee's contract to prevent him working for a nearby competitor.
Executive pay in Australia has been driven by "leap-frogging" - an inflationary form of comparative wage justice that ordinary employees had to abandon as "old hat and dangerous" in the enterprise bargaining era, according to Griffith University's Professor David Peetz. He also says the Fair Work Act's legal minimum is a "useful benchmark" when setting executives' termination payouts.
Just 5% (or less than 600,000) of Australia's 10.65 million workers have been placed in jobs by recruitment or labour hire companies, according to new ABS data that also reveals there are almost a million independent contractors.
There is no evidence to support the widely-held belief that long working weeks are associated with increased likelihood of marital breakdown, according to the latest release from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey.
In a case that has widespread significance, the Federal Court has, for the first time, awarded a sacked employee compensation - of $274,288 - on the basis that his employer breached the grievance procedure in his AWA.
