The Federal Court has today ordered the reinstatement of two National Union of Workers delegates, after finding their employer breached the Work Choices freedom of association provisions when it selected them for redundancy.
A bid by Qantas longhaul pilots for a finding that the airline unlawfully damaged their interests with its plans to move four aircraft to Jetstar has hit severe turbulence, after the Federal Court today threw out the claim.
A NSW IRC full bench has overturned the summary dismissal of a company's long-serving supervisor for receiving, viewing and storing pornographic material, and recommended the employer strengthen its purported zero tolerance policy and install a firewall to block similar material entering its IT system.
The TCFU is concerned that an application to remove redundancy provisions from a mid-term enterprise agreement by a carpet company in receivership signals a push to exploit gaps in the Work Choices 12-month transmission of business rule.
The Federal Government and unions today welcomed the Fair Pay Commission's first minimum wage determination but business leaders attacked the decision as a $2 billion cost on employers without any required increases in productivity.
In its first minimum wage determination, the Fair Pay Commission has awarded pay increases of between $22.04 and $27.36 a week to more than a million workers covered by award pay scales, to take effect from December 1.
More than a third of working mothers with leave entitlements use paid maternity leave, while more than one in five pregnant workers experience inappropriate comments or miss out on training or promotion opportunities, according to new ABS data released today.
Employers' record-keeping obligations under Work Choices have been delayed for six months and sick leave penalties banned in regulations announced by the Federal Government today.
The Federal Court will next week begin hearing a shop assistant's claim for damages for unlawful termination after she questioned her employer's alleged failure to pay superannuation and penalties.
