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.
The NSW Court of Appeal has ruled that a 30-month restraint imposed on a former executive with a financial services firm is reasonable and should not be overturned.
The ACTU has accused business of using the global financial crisis as a cover for unnecessary job cuts, and labelled a "corporate crime" Pacific Brands' confluence of executive salary increases, taxpayer subsidies and manufacturing job losses.
Centrelink management has put a new wage deal on the table that offers employees better pay, more leave and improved flexibility in exchange for longer working hours.
The AMWU and AWU in Victoria have reached an in-principle agreement with a group of contractors in the State's construction and mechanical engineering sector that was renegotiated in light of the global financial crisis but will still deliver some 3,000-to-4,000 employees a 9% wage increase and better Saturday overtime.
In what's believed to be a first, more than 300 workers employed in St Vincent de Paul's NSW community services division will be entitled to two weeks paid foster care leave under a proposed new collective agreement. But the ASU, while welcoming some improvements to benefits, is considering opposing the deal because it is unhappy about other provisions and the process by which the organisation made it.
A harness racing steward who endured sexual harassment and bullying before having her status changed from full-time to casual was unfairly dismissed, the NSW IRC has found.
The proposed Fair Dismissal Code for small business will leave migrant women workers highly vulnerable to being dismissed without any due process, the inquiry into the Fair Work Bill heard this week.
