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.
A storeman sacked for calling a co-worker a "camel fucker" and a "wog" has lost his unfair dismissal claim in the AIRC, while his colleague who was sacked after laughing at the comments has won five weeks' pay.
ACTU President Sharan Burrow is calling for Labor to expand employees' right to request flexible work and to extend its proposed multi-employer bargaining system for low-paid employees. She is also urging a new approach to gender pay equity, noting that "inequity exists at all levels" and citing executive HR managers, where the gender gap is "a massive 43 per cent".
