Road freight industry association NatRoad will tomorrow ask Employment Minister Michaelia Cash to intervene in an application to delay the start in April of a Road Safety Remuneration Order which it says could create a two-tiered payment system that discriminates against owner drivers.
A male NT Treasury employee s-xually harassed a female colleague on the job when he touched her and sent her offensive emails, but incidents at her home, including when he broke in and fell asleep drunk and naked on her son's bed, did not have a sufficient connection to the workplace, a tribunal has found.
The MUA’s national conference has late today endorsed a merger with the CFMEU, opening the way for the plan to be put to a plebiscite of maritime union members.
Law firm Slater & Gordon says its Australian business "continues to thrive", despite posting a first-half loss of almost $1 billion after huge write-downs on its newly-acquired UK business.
The FWC has stymied a bid by an employer on a major resources project to win approval for its enterprise agreement, ruling its 36 casual workers were not eligible to vote because they weren't "employed at the time" when they voted.
A forklift driver who broke his employer's "golden rules" by operating his vehicle while a customer was in an exclusion zone has failed to convince the FWC that his dismissal was unfair, after supporting evidence from a customer collapsed under cross-examination.
MUA national secretary Paddy Crumlin has talked up the need for his union to merge with the CFMEU, arguing that economies of scale will deliver better services for members.
Debilitating anxiety constitutes exceptional circumstances for accepting unfair dismissal claim; Extension granted after smartphone, internet cut off; and Christmas Eve application should have been emailed or faxed.
The FWC has ordered a Catholic Education Office to reduce by about a third the amount it docked relief teachers participating in partial work bans across six SA schools.
