Industrial action that threatened to shut down Brisbane's passenger rail system looks to have been averted after the employer and unions reached in-principle agreement on a new wage deal.
The Federal Government's flagged amendments to the Fair Work Bill's transfer of business provisions are a significant improvement and will be widely used by employers, according to Blake Dawson senior associate Michael Tamvakologos.
US President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package and his Middle Class Taskforce both focus on seeking to increase "green jobs" - but what are they and how do they differ from other jobs?
In what is believed to be the first judgment imposing a penalty for breaching the Workplace Relations Act's s448 prohibition on discriminating against employees for taking industrial action, the Federal Magistrates Court has ordered Austral Bricks to pay $3,300 to the CFMEU.
An apprentice hairdresser who resigned over of her employer's reaction to her pregnancy has been awarded more than $11,000, with the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal finding she was effectively given the choice of keeping her job and being verbally abused, or leaving.
Wage growth in private sector agreements is yet to feel the effects of the global financial crisis, with increases remaining steady at 4.2% a year for the second quarter in a row, according to DEEWR data released today.
Assurances to a former Samsung corporate services manager that her fixed term job would be made permanent did not constitute an enforceable contract, the AIRC has ruled.
Small employers will be able to seek grants of up to $15,000 to develop and implement family friendly workplace policies, under a newly-launched federal government program.
