A Sydney police officer who was sacked after being found guilty of drink-driving causing grievous bodily harm has been reinstated by the NSW IRC after it found his dismissal was harsh.
The AIRC has upheld Brisbane City Council's sacking of an employee, ruling that his post-dismissal conviction for theft before a court justified the council's action.
A Crown Casino employee and “football fanatic” who obtained a medical certificate so he could take time off to attend the last game as Essendon coach of AFL legend Kevin Sheedy in Perth has failed in an unlawful dismissal case that canvasses the issue of whether employers are bound to accept medical certificates they believe are not genuine.
Thousands of allied health professionals will strike at public hospitals and health care centres around Victoria from next Tuesday after secret ballots overwhelmingly endorsed the action to escalate their long-running bargaining dispute with the Brumby Government.
Gillard says statistics prove AWAs ripped off workers; Parliamentary library releases digests for transition bill and other IR legislation; Unfair dismissal law resembles decade-old Coalition model, says report; No nirvana for unions under Rudd’s Blairite model, says Lansbury; New Ronalds' guide to discrimination law; and Provide key details about jobs, or turn off jobseekers, says report.
ACTU secretary Jeff Lawrence today argued that the Fair Pay Commission should not discount any increases in its forthcoming minimum wages determination against the Government's promised tax cuts, or any possible superannuation changes.
For the first time under Work Choices, a court has found an IR consultant jointly liable with an employer for applying duress to an employee to make an AWA.
A prominent Perth builder who exploited 15 vulnerable subclass 457 guest workers, mostly from the Philippines, when he deliberately breached AWA approval and lodgement obligations has been ordered to pay a record $174,000 in penalties.
Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital has been ordered to reinstate a pathology courier it sacked after an internal investigation wrongly accused her of assaulting a fellow employee during a rostering dispute, the AIRC has decided.
There are no new AWAs or ITEAs, employees determine the type of collective agreement they want, the role of unions is recognised and agencies have to bargain genuinely, under the new bargaining guidelines for the public sector.
