Breastfeeding will be established as a separate ground of discrimination and further protection introduced from discrimination on the grounds of family responsibilities under reforms the Federal Government announced yesterday.
Take-home pay orders can be sought for classes of employees, before pay cuts actually occur, and that take into account variations to modern awards under new regulations released yesterday by Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard.
The AEU has failed in its bid to challenge the registration of a rival union under a new provision introduced in the Fair Work reforms, after the Federal Court found it operated retrospectively to ensure the validity of the union.
Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has today released regulations that she says provide greater certainty about the scope and operation of take-home pay orders.
FWO has launched a prosecution against Hungry Jack's for allegedly underpaying its Tasmanian employees $665,695 - a result of the company's failure to register its enterprise agreement.
Employer groups have urged Fair Work Australia to vary the retail modern award to enable retailers to hire casual employees for a minimum two-hour period – down from three – in a move opposed by unions.
Facing Federal Court orders and already subject to those from State IR tribunals, the AEU has this morning backed down on its planned NAPLAN boycott after the Federal Government offered a concession on future use of the test data.
A disability service provider has failed in a protracted bid to prevent LHMU members taking industrial action, but FWA has indicated there was "real potential" it would find that a two-hour stopwork endangered the welfare of the organisation's clients.
Fair Work Australia will pay its employees a $950 sign-on bonus and has agreed to a guaranteed role for union representatives in workplace consultations under its first enterprise agreement.
