Grocery distribution company IGA didn't breach the terms of its agreement when it issued a written warning to a storeman who failed to meet the company's benchmarks under an "engineered labour standard" work system, a Fair Work Australia full bench has found today.
UK mandates two-weeks paid post-birth recovery period; ABS says mothers increasingly opting for flexible work; and APSC says agencies must "avoid being narrow" on domestic violence.
The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal will investigate the retail sector as part of its inquiries into employment conditions and safety in the road transport industry, potentially opening to scrutiny the supply chains of major retailers Coles and Woolworths.
Fair Work Australia has rejected an employer's application to recoup its costs of defending an unfair dismissal case brought by its former general manager, who failed to turn up to the hearing and allegedly used the claim to secure outstanding entitlements and apply media pressure to the company.
An unmarried doctor has failed to convince a tribunal that he was discriminated against on the grounds of his marital status by changes to WA government salary packaging arrangements.
Passage of independent Senator Nick Xenophon's bill to reduce penalty rates in retail and hospitality would "fundamentally recalibrate the existing and common distinctions between regular and other working hours and days" and cut the average weekly pay of 200,000 affected low-paid workers by up to $58 a week (11%), according to DEEWR.
An Australian army major who has alleged racial discrimination against the federal government has failed in his Federal Court interlocutory bid to be re-posted to Canberra to be with his family pending the full hearing of his case.
Twenty-five years' service was not enough to save an employee from losing his job after downloading and emailing pornography at work, with Fair Work Australia holding his dismissal was fair.
Employers are prohibiting employees from using social media sites such as Facebook during work hours and seeking to stop them from making comments on social networks about their companies after hours, a new Fair Work Australia agreement-searching tool has revealed.
