The AIRC has reinstated an interstate truck driver sacked by Linfox Australia Pty Ltd for refusing a drug and alcohol test, after finding the company failed to explain the testing regime and wasn't authorised to conduct more than one test a year on each employee.
The Rudd Government's commitment to abolish key planks of Work Choices has put the future of Victoria's Office of the Workplace Rights Advocate under a cloud, with state IR Minister Rob Hulls today announcing an open-ended review of its role.
The NSW Supreme Court has found that a redundancy offer Tooheys made by letter to six brewery workers was a binding contract, despite the company over-calculating their entitlements by a total of $640,000.
Thales introduces five days paid paternity leave; Almost half of medium to large employers providing paid maternity leave: EOWA; PC parental leave inquiry transcript now available for Sydney and Melbourne; AMMA to push for mining industry award to be given priority; BCA calls for overhaul of teacher certification, pay; Rolling stoppages in June in NSW schools, another strike next term; Jetstar bringing in pilots on 457 visas; ACTU launches new television advertising campaign; and DHL Exel judgment and NSW IRC president's speech now available.
A Virgin Blue pilots’ union is seeking registration from the AIRC, as the airline prepares to employ flight crew under individual contracts for its new international operations.
A Federal Court judge has upheld the imposition of the maximum $33,000 penalty on a company that deliberately denied a new mother her right to return to work after maternity leave.
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick is pushing for the Rudd Government to introduce paid maternity leave in two stages - 14 weeks initially, before moving to 48 weeks. Her proposal also provides a further six weeks paid leave for supporting parents.
Store workers at DHL Exel Supply Chain's Matraville (NSW) site are stuck on an unlawfully-made enterprise agreement, after their employer secretly negotiated a deal with the NUW that locked out their longstanding representatives, the TWU.
The AiG has recommended the introduction of 12 to 14 weeks of publicly-funded paid maternity leave and rejected suggestions that employers should contribute, in oral evidence to the Productivity Commission's paid parental leave inquiry today.
