A newly-approved variation to fast food giant McDonald's enterprise agreement has secured gains for home delivery drivers, including their own classification, longer breaks and car insurance, according to SDA national secretary Gerard Dwyer.
The ACTU has taken a lifecycle approach in its latest report on the gender pay gap, showing inequity starts early for young girls who typically receive 11% less pocket money and persists into retirement, when women's superannuation balances are on on average less than half those of men.
Full bench rejects new electrical licence allowance; Lyons issues note of warning on union consolidation; Registered Organisations Act might breach FOA, says ALRC; FWC approves Dick Smith deal despite company going into receivership; Clancy's overflow: New roles for Calver, Schmitke; HR Nicholls seeking executive director; and MUA seeking crowdfunding of television commercial.
An employer must compensate a bullied employee it forced to resign, after the FWC found he was unfairly dismissed for failing to comply with an unreasonable request to be examined by a company-nominated doctor.
Notices to employees that allegedly misrepresented union support for a proposed enterprise agreement that had the "potential to mislead" and could be characterised as "unfair" did not undermine the collective bargaining process, a FWC full bench has ruled.
Independent senators Glenn Lazarus and Jacqui Lambie have begun working on US-style laws to crack down on foreign-flagged ships engaged in the Australian coastal trade.
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of a child care centre worker who was accused of being no more than a "bystander" when a four-year-old went into anaphylactic shock after consuming a jam-drop biscuit that contained egg.
The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal has today released an online tool that will enable calculation of minimum payments for contractor drivers who work under the road safety remuneration order that will apply in long distance transport and the supermarket supply chain from next month.
