The 2,700 permanent employees of Citi Group in Australia will be entitled from next year to eight hours annually of paid leave to manage their personal finances.
Employers might be obliged to make super contributions when they pay some employees a lump sum in lieu of working out their notice, following an important ruling by the NSW Court of Appeal.
The WA IRC is set to win new powers to mediate disputes and widen its ability to hear denied contractual benefits claims, after three pieces of workplace legislation passed the State's lower house.
Pay rises in private sector federal agreements lodged in the June quarter have exceeded 4% annually for the first time in 12 months, according to data released by DEWR today that coincides with the Reserve Bank lifting interest rates and saying wage growth has been "contained".
NSW's State Transit Authority was justified in sacking a bus driver for using her hand-held two-way radio while in control of a 16-tonne bus carrying a full load of passengers, a tribunal has ruled.
Myer's new private equity owners have struck an enterprise deal with the SDA that retains conditions for more than 20,000 employees while moderating their pay levels to bring them into line with Coles group competitors Target and Kmart.
Jetstar and the ASU are set to lodge a new collective agreement with the Workplace Authority after 94% of balloted ground staff voted in favour of a three-year deal that doubles unpaid parental leave and makes it easier for workers to swap shifts.
The CPSU is accusing Telstra of trying to rush through a Work Choices non-union call centre agreement before the federal election, but the telco says the union is being misleading, because such an agreement would be "equally possible" under a Coalition or Labor Government.
Victorian workers who called community-based employment rights advocate JobWatch after the advent of Work Choices were negative about and fearful of the legislation, with their primary concern the job insecurity resulting from unfair dismissal changes, according to a new study.
The High Court's Justice Michael Kirby has highlighted the role of "the now often despised" IR tribunals in removing gender and pay inequality, saying that it wasn't secured by individual bargaining or workplace agreements.
