Qantas has been ordered to pay a former licensed aircraft mechanical engineer $71,692 after the Federal Magistrates Court accepted that discriminatory remarks made to him at work contributed to his depressive illness.
St George has begun offering its 8,500 employees interest-free loans of up to $4,000 to purchase ecologically sustainable infrastructure such as rainwater tanks for their home and boosted its paid parental leave from eight weeks to thirteen weeks, in a policy change announced today.
An employee sacked for having pornographic material on his computer at work has won a new hearing of his unfair dismissal application, in a full bench ruling on the principles for determining whether a termination is harsh, unjust or unreasonable.
Some of the amendments to the Workplace Relations Act passed by Parliament this week - and likely to receive Royal Assent next week - could cause substantial practical difficulties for employers with pre-reform agreements, according to Flinders University Professor of Law Andrew Stewart.
Executive employment contracts containing detailed definitions of misbehavour justifying dismissal don't override the common law notion of misconduct, a Supreme Court Judge has ruled in the highly publicised case of former Primelife chief executive Ted Sent.
It is possible that the Office of the Employee Advocate deliberately restricted leave to all of its employees on the ACTU's day of action against Work Choices so it could stop CPSU members from attending the protests, a Federal Court full bench has found.
The work-and-spend cycle is one explanation why employees work long hours - though not all those who fall into the category see themselves as trapped there, a new study shows.
The Iemma Government is preparing to trial new procurement guidelines that require suppliers of goods and services to comply with state awards and meet a no disadvantage test.
With no requirement on employers to provide the information up-front, 50 employees have lodged unfair dismissal claims under Work Choices only to find out later their company employed 100 or fewer workers, while nine "operational reasons" decisions went employees' way before Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews last week intervened in an AIRC appeal.
More than 40% of mothers who resume work within 15 months of giving birth are doing so earlier than they would prefer due to financial pressure, highlighting the need for more paid parental leave and better arrangements for mothers to take leave without being penalised, according to research by a University of Queensland academic.
