The Federal Court has ordered Central Queensland University to pay the NTEU $6,600 for failing to properly consult it about staff cuts last year in breach of their collective agreement. An extra $400 in fines is to be paid to the Commonwealth.
An AIRC full bench has upheld a decision to compensate rather than reinstate a belligerent and obstructive employee, despite accepting that it would have been justified to dismiss her on the grounds of misconduct.
Domino's pizza chain has joined the groundswell in support of paid maternity leave, announcing today that it was offering the benefit - plus paid partner leave - to the 200 permanent employees at its head office.
Pay increased at 3.8% a year in December quarter federal enterprise agreements, slightly lower than the previous quarter, according to DEEWR data that is likely to allay Reserve Bank concerns about a wages breakout. The data shows that a large number of retail agreements in the quarter moderated the average increase.
The Rudd Government's National Employment Standards should give Fair Work Australia a dispute-settling role, expand family and carers' rights and guarantee public holiday pay rates, according to Griffith University's Professor David Peetz.
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The Productivity Commission is seeking feedback by June 2 on questions surrounding a national paid parental leave scheme, such as whether it should be funded by employers, be long enough to provide for breast-feeding and foster family-well-being and how to ensure it doesn't replace voluntary privately-funded leave.
Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens today agreed in principle that allowing bargaining on a wider range of matters would be positive for productivity, as both sides of politics sought to draw him into supporting their IR policy positions in his evidence to the House Economics Committee.
Who should manage organisational responses to the challenges arising from global warming - HR or internal environmental experts? That question was a matter of controversy at a Workplace Research Centre conference in Sydney yesterday, where the environmental sustainability director of a major construction company said handing the job to HR was the "blue screen of death" for the issue.
