In what is believed to be an unprecedented ruling, a tribunal has found a childcare provider unlawfully discriminated on the basis of age when it required a parent to pay fees based on the age of their child rather than the intensity of care required.
A tribunal has awarded $2500 for hurt and humiliation and $7900 in damages to a pregnant employee dismissed for alleged poor performance and excessive sick leave absences just weeks before she became eligible for 12 months unpaid maternity leave.
AIRC reinstates Rail Corp employee sacked over outburst; Court refuses injunction to keep worker with post-polio syndrome in APS; Worker denied interview for promotion allowed to make age bias, victimisation claims; and Worker given another chance to plead age bias case against Schering.
Fears of a wages breakout are likely to be soothed by the DEWRR's latest data on pay rises under federal enterprise agreements, which show they dipped slightly to 3.7% a year in the private sector in the March quarter, largely as a result of modest increases in a major retail deal. Pay rises in non-union deals also overtook those in union deals, while rises in WA were well ahead of other states.
New parliamentary inquiry into gender pay equity and female participation; AWU's nuclear vision "fanciful" says coal mining union leader; Time to review restrictive laws governing industrial action, says paper.
The AIRC has agreed to extend and vary a pre-Work Choices agreement for SPL Group's Brisbane warehouse to provide annual pay rises of 4.5% this year and next year, but has declined to backdate the deal to the first increase in February this year, saying this would be justified only in "compelling" circumstances.
Unfair dismissal remuneration cap to rise to $106,400; CFMEU WA leadership contender pledges to end union’s links to Burke; and AWU to push for carbon capture and storage.
A court has restrained a former employee's use of confidential information, after he inadvertently sent an email to his former employer that appeared to draw on secret data.
HR directors can earn up to $400,000 in NSW, while IR/ER managers can get up to $170,000 in WA and Queensland, according to a HR salary guide released today.
The Federal Magistrates Court has ordered Darrell Lea Chocolate Shops Pty Ltd to pay $120,000 in penalties for coercing 12 casual employees to sign AWAs, after finding it was a "big company that should have done better" and showed itself to be "surprisingly unsophisticated" on HR matters.
