A small business employer has been fined $20,000 and ordered to backpay $12,500, after refusing to pay annual leave loading in the mistaken belief that it had been abolished.
The NSW IRC has rejected an unfair dismissal claim by a NSW Parliament House security guard after finding he was in the members bar watching television when intruders entered the building.
The Federal Government has used the release of data on 1,000 AWAs to put pressure on the Opposition in the lead up to the introduction of its substantive IR bill, which Caucus members were today briefed on by Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard.
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The AIRC has today granted a TWU member an extension of time to make an unfair dismissal claim after his union organiser failed to lodge his application before going on leave.
The Federal Court has restrained two employees of a Melbourne car park operator from helping it poach business from a rival, in a case that breaks new ground in the application of the "springboard" doctrine in confidential information cases.
A Customs officer was entitled to claim a tax deduction for legal expenses incurred to defend disciplinary charges, the High Court has found today, in a judgment that raises the prospect of employees claiming deductions for the legal costs of a range of actions connected with keeping their jobs.
Trend pay rates in the private sector grew by 1% in the September quarter and 4.2% in the year to September, according to the ABS Labour Price Index, released today. Private sector pay growth has now outstripped public sector growth for five successive quarters.
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The ACTU is still pressing the Government on a number of reforms to facilitate the spread of collective bargaining, senior industrial officer Cath Bowtell said yesterday.
