Two months after locking horns in court in a union-initiated freedom of association case, the CPSU and the Australian Bureau of Statistics have reached agreement on a new protocol for negotiation, communication and access to the workplace which the union believes could be a model for all APS agencies.
$9600 fine for hotel principals; Birth rate likely to have exceeded 1.9 last year, says PC; Sonny Bill Williams case to test negative covenants; and Conciliation by ACAS cuts hearing days by 75%.
In an important confidential information ruling, the England & Wales High Court has ordered a former employee to hand over all of the client information he had allegedly transferred to the database of a professional networking site.
NSW early childhood centres and pre-schools that relied on Work Choices to shield them from paying wage increases due under a consent award are now facing backpay claims of up to 9% following a Federal Court ruling today.
A Federal Court full bench is set to hear an appeal against a South Australian IR Court ruling that sidesteps the Work Choices provision relieving small businesses of the obligation to make severance payments.
High Court finds barrister liable for erroneous workers compensation advice; ABS statistical cuts a threat to IR data: Peetz; Older people healthier when in work, says ABS; ACTU calls for expanded entry rights; Put a carbon tariff on imported goods, says AMWU; and North Goonyella sacking upheld.
In Australia's only known prosecution of an employee for failing to provide notice of resignation, a former Griffith University lecturer has been fined $500 by the Federal Magistrates Court – a fraction of the $4,000 sought by the university.
A new survey that reveals workers' continuing struggle to meet commitments outside of work underlines the need for a meaningful formal right for all employees to be able to request changes in working hours and to contest requests that are denied, according to University of South Australia researchers Natalie Skinner and Barbara Pocock.
Halliburton Australia's decision to terminate the services of an injured contract mining worker after less than a month's employment on probation was not discriminatory, a tribunal has found.
nergex loses bid to stop ETU emergency work bans; Extra 86,000 workers needed by 2020 for minerals boom; Jetstar's Joyce to replace Dixon as Qantas chief executive; AFAP extends Virgin Blue coverage overseas; and Retailer backpays $247,000 to 173 staff after WO investigation.
