An exemption to permit South Australia's courts to engage women-only in a "positive discrimination" program is being touted as an important step to address a substantial gender imbalance spotlighted a year ago by a Law Council study.
A tribunal has confirmed that workers who seek redeployment in a related entity must establish evidence of overall managerial control and integration between them.
Australia's largest rail freight operator, Aurizon, has been ordered to provide the full pro-rata rate of pay to a train driver who was to receive a reduced amount under a compassionate grounds/short-term medical disability clause when she returned part-time from maternity leave.
MUA WA branch official Will Tracey could seek a fresh entry permit, after a full Federal Court made it clear that the Fair Work Commission can exercise its discretion to issue him a conditional permit even though he failed the "fit and proper person" test.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has granted an injured employee permission to challenge a finding that his dismissal was fair, holding that the tribunal didn't properly consider the work he could still perform, his age, or the chance of him finding another job.
Nannies won't need formal childcare training to participate in the federal government's new $246m two-year trial to help shiftworkers and those in rural and regional areas to meet the costs of home-based care.
The Fair Work Commission has refused to reverse the dismissal of an OHS manager who used his employment-related LinkedIn account to send abusive personal emails, directed "expletive rich" language at his manager and declined to participate in a performance plan.
Teachers and support staff in more than 500 Catholic schools in NSW and the ACT have called off plans to strike today in what the Independent Education Union says is an "act of good faith" to get the long-running negotiations finalised after major breakthroughs.
