Australia Post strike ballot to go ahead, as employer pays 4% unilaterally; AIRC refuses ALAEA ballot application; Victoria Police seeks s496 order; Annual leave and sick leave couldn’t be bought out under Labor: Gillard; New ACTU tv commercial features dismissed Priceline employee; and Another pop culture blow for Work Choices.
A Telstra worker sacked for allegedly damaging and stealing a security camera will have to pay costs that might exceed $50,000, after the AIRC found his unfair dismissal case was “manifestly untenable or groundless”.
The Workplace Ombudsman won’t be taking any action against WorkDirections - the employment services company owned by Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd’s wife – after an audit revealed workers have been paid correctly in recent months.
IR/HR practitioners have given Work Choices a very mixed score-card, reporting that it has given employees some initial work/life benefits but expecting that balance will deteriorate over time; finding it has increased direct communication but also that it has increased paperwork and reliance on legal advice; and split over whether the legislation encourages or discourages their organisations from taking on new workers.
American Express has launched a new drive to attract and retain employees, doubling its paid parental leave and offering discounted mortgage rates and health insurance allowances.
Virgin Blue will pay its 4,000 employees a 3% one-off bonus, after profit exceeded the target to trigger the payment, the airline announced today as it revealed a 93% increase in profit.
Most of Qantas's 34,000 employees will receive $2,000 in shares and bonuses, the airline announced today as it revealed its 2006-07 pre-tax profit of more than $1 billion.
The Federal Magistrates Court has refused to issue an injunction stopping the University of Adelaide from terminating the employment of a professor who claimed he was a full-time employee, rather than on a fixed term contract.
Hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses in the private sector grew at a moderate 1% seasonally adjusted in the June quarter and 3.8% annually, according to the ABS, despite a big growth in jobs and a shortage of labour.
