The Federal Government's amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act - introduced into Parliament yesterday - establish breastfeeding as a separate ground of discrimination and extend the existing protections from discrimination on family responsibility grounds.
APESMA and Qantas have struck a deal ending the long-running bargaining dispute that saw the airline's professional engineers take industrial action for the first time.
Union leaders today said Julia Gillard's rise to the nation's top political job would improve Labor's chances at the next election, while employer groups urged her to take a balanced approach on issues such the mining tax and climate change.
Australia's first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has cited the Opposition's position on IR, health and education as her primary motivation for challenging Kevin Rudd for the leadership of the Labor Party this morning.
Deputy Prime Minister and Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has been elected unopposed as leader of the ALP and is now set to become Australia's first female Prime Minister.
The parliamentary Labor Party will tomorrow morning vote on whether to replace Prime Minister Kevin Rudd with his deputy and Workplace Relations Minister, Julia Gillard.
A bid by the Federal Government to relax the requirement on FWA head Justice Geoffrey Giudice to appear for questioning at Estimates hearings has been defeated in the Senate, with Senators Steve Fielding and Nick Xenophon voting with the Coalition against it.
The explosion in electronic and online "exhibitionism and voyeurism" raises complex recruitment, discipline and legal issues for employers, with risks arising even from something as simple as Googling a potential employee, a US expert has warned.
FWA has found that the CEPU and AMWU were genuinely trying to reach an agreement with Kraft in South Australia despite being at odds with it over the scope of the proposed deal and meeting with it only a few times.
FWA has ordered the ACT Government bus service to dock bus drivers' wages by less than it told them it would when they notified partial work bans, holding it wasn't enough to strictly apply the Fair Work Regulations' pay docking formula.
