A NSW public hospital victimised a nurse when it tried to teach her a lesson by rostering her for shifts in a locked psychiatric ward after she made an internal discrimination complaint, a tribunal has found in the latest round of a long-running case.
A record fine imposed on Perth builder Gerry Hanssen for breaching AWA lodgement rules has been massively reduced after the Federal Court ruled he did not exploit the workers.
In what is believed to be the first judgment imposing a penalty for breaching the Workplace Relations Act's s448 prohibition on discriminating against employees for taking industrial action, the Federal Magistrates Court has ordered Austral Bricks to pay $3,300 to the CFMEU.
The AWU has reversed falling membership levels in several of its branches through a new national organising strategy being rolled out across the union.
Real unit labour costs and productivity dropped as the economy recorded its first quarter of negative growth since 1991, according to national accounts data released today. The statistics also mark the reversal of a recent trend of an increasing share of the economic cake going to profits and a record low to wages.
ACTU tells business: Obey IR laws or lose corporate welfare; Family First bill to make executives planning redundancies pay back bonuses; Do's and Don'ts of downsizing; CFMEU, organiser, fined a total of $23,500; and Barklamb leaving ACCI for job in Geneva.
An apprentice hairdresser who resigned over of her employer's reaction to her pregnancy has been awarded more than $11,000, with the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal finding she was effectively given the choice of keeping her job and being verbally abused, or leaving.
Wage growth in private sector agreements is yet to feel the effects of the global financial crisis, with increases remaining steady at 4.2% a year for the second quarter in a row, according to DEEWR data released today.
Assurances to a former Samsung corporate services manager that her fixed term job would be made permanent did not constitute an enforceable contract, the AIRC has ruled.
