The ACTU will seek a $26-a-week increase to minimum award wages up to the tradespersons rate and 3.8% beyond that, in this year's minimum wage case, while the major employer groups are supporting increases of $14-a-week or less.
Despite reaching in-principle agreement on a new enterprise deal for its four container ports across Australia late last year, Patrick is experiencing renewed industrial action, with a 48-hour strike underway at Fremantle and FWA this week ordering a halt to an alleged "go-slow" at Port Botany in Sydney.
A male health care worker has been fined $10,000 for s--ually harassing a colleague by giving her a s--ually explicit document that led to her making a complaint to the police, while their employer has escaped liability because it had taken "reasonable steps".
A software consultancy has failed to prove that it had sufficient grounds to restrain an IT specialist from moving to a management position with a former client.
The Commonwealth Ombudsman is investigating a complaint by the HR Nicholls Society over the length of time it has taken FWA to carry out its HSU investigations.
A former building union official who withdrew his unfair dismissal application because he was confident an internal appeal would succeed has been refused an extension of time to proceed with a subsequent application.
NSW passenger train operator Railcorp has given an undertaking to review its recruitment processes, after Human Rights Commissioner Catherine Branson found it discriminated against an applicant for a market analyst position because of two criminal drink-driving offences in the previous eight years.
The AiG has applied to Fair Work Australia to extend the model award flexibility clause to allow for individual arrangements on taking leave and cashing out annual leave.
