DEEWR seeking senior manager to establish Fair Work Australia; $22,000 penalty for negligent underpayment; New secretary for NUW in Queensland; and New road freight tribunal within WA IRC.
A full bench of the AIRC has overturned an earlier finding that a woman who returned letters unopened and repeatedly failed to contact her employer while on sick leave then workers' compensation leave had abandoned her employment.
At a time when the building industry unions are stepping up their campaign to have the ABCC abolished, the construction industry watchdog has released a report that found its presence and powers, along with earlier changes to IR laws, resulted in a 10% productivity increase in the construction sector last year.
NSW early childhood centres and pre-schools that relied on Work Choices to shield them from paying wage increases due under a consent award are now facing backpay claims of up to 9% following a Federal Court ruling today.
A Federal Court full bench is set to hear an appeal against a South Australian IR Court ruling that sidesteps the Work Choices provision relieving small businesses of the obligation to make severance payments.
High Court finds barrister liable for erroneous workers compensation advice; ABS statistical cuts a threat to IR data: Peetz; Older people healthier when in work, says ABS; ACTU calls for expanded entry rights; Put a carbon tariff on imported goods, says AMWU; and North Goonyella sacking upheld.
Union leaders heading a public campaign for the urgent abolition of the ABCC and the construction industry code and guidelines have branded the prosecution of CFMEU construction division Victorian branch vice president Noel Washington under a Labor Government as a "disgrace".
In Australia's only known prosecution of an employee for failing to provide notice of resignation, a former Griffith University lecturer has been fined $500 by the Federal Magistrates Court – a fraction of the $4,000 sought by the university.
The NSW Supreme Court has ruled that an area health service acted unlawfully when it indefinitely suspended a doctor in charge of a Sydney hospital's neonatal unit.
A new survey that reveals workers' continuing struggle to meet commitments outside of work underlines the need for a meaningful formal right for all employees to be able to request changes in working hours and to contest requests that are denied, according to University of South Australia researchers Natalie Skinner and Barbara Pocock.
