A rail maintenance company committed indirect racial discrimination when it demoted a Macedonian-born supervisor due to concerns that his poor literacy was a safety risk, the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal has ruled.
A Donut King store operator who coerced and bullied a long-serving employee to sign an AWA has been fined $12,000 by the Federal Magistrates Court, following a prosecution by the Workplace Ombudsman.
Two months after locking horns in court in a union-initiated freedom of association case, the CPSU and the Australian Bureau of Statistics have reached agreement on a new protocol for negotiation, communication and access to the workplace which the union believes could be a model for all APS agencies.
$9600 fine for hotel principals; Birth rate likely to have exceeded 1.9 last year, says PC; Sonny Bill Williams case to test negative covenants; and Conciliation by ACAS cuts hearing days by 75%.
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.
