Unions will not compromise on their opposition to exemptions for small businesses from unfair dismissal laws in the ALP’s forthcoming IR policy, ACTU president Sharan Burrow said today.
As a result of Work Choices taking effect, the WA IRC no longer has the power to hear contractual benefits claims involving employees of constitutional corporations, the Commission has found.
Adecco, Australia's third largest provider of temporary labour, will boost the training it provides to its temporary workers and treat them more like ongoing employees, according to its global chief executive, Dieter Scheiff.
An innovative “unified agreement” replacing 16 separate awards and collective agreements plus a number of individual contracts covering around 900 employees at Vision Australia was easier to negotiate under Work Choices’ approval process, according to the organisation’s national HR manager, John Gow.
An ABS survey taken in May last year - before the full impact of Work Choices was felt - shows that registered individual deals such as AWAs have made little headway, covering just 3.1% of workers in the private sector and 2% in the public sector, while non-managers are earning 3.3% less under AWAs than they do under collective deals.
RailCorp New South Wales has been ordered not to take disciplinary action against an employee until his victimisation complaint to the Anti-Discrimination Board is decided.
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Bonus scheme excluded when calculating whether salary within unfair dismissal income cap; 5% of labour force underemployed, says ABS; and Other countries looking to 457 visa model, says paper
A restraint of trade clause that prevented a former Perth funeral parlour manager from working in the same industry after leaving the company has been found to be unenforceable by the Western Australian Supreme Court.
A full bench of the NSW IRC has upheld a finding that the sacking of a court officer for both harassment and sexual harassment was unfair, but said it made its ruling "not without hesitation" and warned that "no employee who engages in harassment of any kind could take any comfort from our decision".
