Australia's major banks say they will overhaul retail employees' pay structures to reduce the importance of incentives, commissions and variable rewards.
Information Commissioner Tim Pilgrim has upheld Australia Post's decision to deny a former worker access to internal documents he sought after allegedly hearing from a HR manager that two senior employees would be disciplined for "inappropriate comments" about him.
Airservices Australia was entitled to dismiss a firefighter keeping watch at a major airport's fire control centre for continuing to film a simulation of himself making music on an electronic device as an alarm sounded, the FWC has found.
An Emirates group subsidiary is planning to cut pay and conditions for its ground crew at Australian airports, the ASU has alleged in a submission to a Senate inquiry.
The CPSU is ramping-up its campaign to break a bargaining deadlock at the Department of Human Services, with rolling stoppages set to start next week, but the department anticipates the effect of the union's action will be "minimal".
Comcare has been ordered to pay $20,000 to a cancer-afflicted Defence employee whose privacy it breached after failing to properly protect her identity in a redacted report published online.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of an accounts manager for cosmetics giant Coty for making disparaging comments about clients in an email she accidentally sent to them.
A full Federal Court has concluded that BHP Coal was entitled to sack a boilermaker who refused to attend a medical appointment to assess his fitness to return to work.
A full Federal Court has upheld the Australian Defence Force's right to sack an outspoken army reservist over his "extreme" and "wholly unacceptable" social media comments about Islam and a transgender colleague.
The Federal Government should consider requiring APS agencies to report to the WGEA on their performance against gender equality targets, University of NSW researcher Sue Williamson told an IR academics' conference this month.
