Speakers at an IR academics conference have revealed that more than a third of foreign students at a prestigious university business school who work off-campus part-time are being paid less than $12 an hour, highlighted the critical importance for the Australian Public Service bargaining round of an agreement ballot closing today and pointed to a "hidden culture" of overtime in APS middle management.
Unions are considering a push into new areas, offering online campaigning and basic services that would cost workers $1 to $2 a week, under a radical plan to rebuild membership density.
A Melbourne hotelier took adverse action against an events manager when she took sick leave to manage her anxiety and sought legal advice, the Federal Circuit Court has found.
A court has found a former employee guilty of contempt and ordered her to pay indemnity costs after she breached undertakings not to allege the employer's managing director was a bully in an unhealthy and dangerous workplace.
A tribunal has warned employers that they must not only have anti-discrimination policies in place but must also ensure they are "communicated effectively", after finding an Aboriginal economic development company vicariously liable for race discrimination.
Patrick and the MUA have today begun four days of assisted negotiations, despite an FWC full bench yesterday clearing the way for the union to resume industrial action.
Some 35,000 Department of Human Services employees began voting on Friday on a proposed deal delivering a 2% annual pay rise, while the FWC has recently approved agreements for three mid-sized APS agencies providing the same quantum to about 8,500 employees.
In a important decision on right of entry, an FWC full bench has permitted the CFMEU to hold discussions in a BHP Coal mine's dragline crib rooms, overruling a previous finding that that the areas were not fit for that purpose.
