Former Ansett employees will next week receive another $46.9 million in a sixth dividend payment from company administrators after a creditors meeting yesterday approved pooling arrangements for the 40 companies in the failed airlines group, ending lengthy Federal Court proceedings on the carve-up
Employer greenfields agreements provided the lowest pay increases of all collective deals lodged in the June quarter this year, according to the latest data from DEWR.
The Victorian Government has limited its much-anticipated reform of workplace privacy laws to banning surveillance of toilets, washrooms, change rooms and lactation rooms, except where authorised under security or licensing laws.
John Holland Group was justified in summarily dismissing a senior executive who loaned company-owned vehicles to his son for about 12 months, the Federal Court has ruled.
In an important ruling for unions runnning proxy campaigns against public companies, the Federal Court has found the Finance Sector Union didn't unlawfully coerce the Commonwealth Bank to make a collective agreement when it ran a campaign targeting its shareholders in 2004.
A major logistics company has been ordered to pay $25,000 in damages to a Muslim former employee who was called "bombchucker" and "Osama Bin Laden" by work colleagues.
A major employer has failed to strike out a discrimination case by a sales representative with an alleged gambling addiction who was denied salary maintenance when she suddenly moved from Melbourne to Perth to escape Victoria's poker machines.
Some 2,700 employees of Coles Myer subsidiary OfficeWorks have won a 3.5% annual pay rise under a proposed new deal with the SDA that gives the company more rostering flexibility during peak times.
Major construction player John Holland was the first company to lodge a Work Choices employer greenfields agreement, and it has since gone on to register five more.
