A recruiter's error when offering a job to a candidate added weight to her claim of unfair dismissal, but ultimately didn't convince Fair Work Australia that the position had been misrepresented to her.
Westpac group will pay 9% super contributions during up to 12 months of employees' parental leave, it announced today, while its first enterprise agreement in eight years is up for approval before FWA tomorrow.
Bargaining between offshore oil and gas industry vessel operators and labour-hire providers and maritime unions is beginning to bear fruit, with employers last week lodging with FWA several agreements covering ships' officers.
The Federal Government's amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act - introduced into Parliament yesterday - establish breastfeeding as a separate ground of discrimination and extend the existing protections from discrimination on family responsibility grounds.
The explosion in electronic and online "exhibitionism and voyeurism" raises complex recruitment, discipline and legal issues for employers, with risks arising even from something as simple as Googling a potential employee, a US expert has warned.
FWA has ordered the ACT Government bus service to dock bus drivers' wages by less than it told them it would when they notified partial work bans, holding it wasn't enough to strictly apply the Fair Work Regulations' pay docking formula.
A Fair Work Australia full bench late today approved the McDonald's Australia enterprise agreement, reversing a ruling by Commissioner Donna McKenna, who found it failed to meet pre-approval requirements and the no disadvantage test.
The Federal Court has today ordered three Queensland Rail entities to pay the maximum $33,000 penalty for 20 separate failures to consult unions about major change affecting up to 15,000 employees.
In another ruling likely to further fuel debate about consistency in agreement approval processes, FWA today refused to certify a deal that unilaterally removed all penalties, overtime and allowances and gave the five employees covered no opportunity to appoint a bargaining agent until they cast their vote.
