SDA takes 90-minute after-school shifts fight to Federal Court; Reith and Riley to speak at Victorian IR Society conference; Compensation for worker who made throat-slitting gesture; Todd takes up job as Hilton Worldwide's regional HR director.
The ACTU will be pushing for the share of tax paid by business to be maintained, arguing that company regime is already globally among "the most competitive and innovation-friendly", at next week's tax summit in Canberra, which will be attended by more than 20 senior representatives of unions and employer associations.
The High Court has dismissed a bid by Roy Morgan Research Pty Ltd to scupper the Super Guarantee Charge that acts as an incentive for employers to make superannuation contributions on behalf of their employees.
A court has has temporarily restrained a WA council from taking adverse action against employees who are publicly advocating support for their enterprise bargaining claims during a local government election campaign.
FWA has issued a bargaining order sought by the AMWU after finding an employer conducted itself unfairly when it ran a "carefully orchestrated" campaign to provide immediate pay rises to lure employees out of being represented by the union during agreement negotiations. Meanwhile, a FWA full bench will today hear the employer's appeal against the rejection of its agreement.
The ACTU will be finalising options over the next couple of months to address insecure work, ahead of the ALP's national conference in December, ACTU secretary Jeff Lawrence said today.
FWA has upheld the St Vincent de Paul Society's dismissal for misconduct of an IT manager who deliberately stopped emails from reaching the mobile phone of the organisation's IR manager.
A NSW tribunal has dismissed a transgender road worker's allegation that he was unlawfully vilified by comments in the workplace, ruling that the conduct wasn't a "public act" under the state's Anti-Discrimination Act.
