New ABS data released today indicates a smaller proportion of employees were entitled to paid parental leave in October last year than a year earlier. The new survey coincides with the St Vincent de Paul opportunity shop chain in NSW offering 14 weeks paid maternity leave to its 400 employees and a new study showing that breastfeeding suffers when mothers return to work in the first six months after having a baby.
Workers at Boeing subsidiary Hawker de Havilland returned to work at the company's Fishermens Bend site this morning, ending a three-week strike over the dismissal of a supervisor.
Company director guilty by omission, court finds; Community radio station a trading corporation, says IRC; and ABCC seeks to cancel entry permit of CFMEU NSW branch organiser.
An AIRC full bench has sidestepped the Federal Court full bench's TWU judgment, in rejecting arguments that an order to halt industrial action was too broad, vague and general and failed to give proper notice to employees.
The AIRC will next week issue a statement that will clarify the process and timetable for the first steps in the award modernisation process, the Commission's President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, told a NSW IR Society seminar last night.
In one of the largest damages awards for sexual harassment ever made in Australia, a trainee neurosurgeon has been awarded $100,000 after a Victorian tribunal accepted her allegation against the head of her team at Monash Medical Centre in Victoria.
Victoria's Workplace Rights Advocate, Tony Lawrence, has asked Workplace Ombudsman Nick Wilson to re-open his investigation into whether the contractor that took over the Qantas valet parking operation applied duress to convince employees to sign AWAs
Some 800 white-collar workers employed by Queensland power distributor Ergon Energy will go out for four hours tomorrow morning, as they push to gain the same attraction and retention allowances provided to the organisation's blue-collar workforce.
