The Federal Magistrates Court has refused to issue an injunction stopping the University of Adelaide from terminating the employment of a professor who claimed he was a full-time employee, rather than on a fixed term contract.
APESMA executive director IR Geoff Fary has won the support of Right faction unions to replace Richard Marles as ACTU assistant secretary when he resigns to stand as ALP candidate for the federal seat of Corio in Victoria at the next election.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has dismissed a complaint by a former AMWU organiser that his redundancy from a construction project last year resulted from discrimination on the basis of industrial activity.
Hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses in the private sector grew at a moderate 1% seasonally adjusted in the June quarter and 3.8% annually, according to the ABS, despite a big growth in jobs and a shortage of labour.
The head of BlueScope Steel has warned that Australia was at risk of going “seriously backwards” on IR if the ALP won office, saying the party’s policy was fuelling union expectations of resurgence in power that undermined business confidence.
The Federal Court’s Justice Susan Kiefel, who will replace Justice Ian Callinan on the High Court, didn’t have a strong grounding in IR as a barrister but has ruled on some high-profile IR cases since moving to the bench 14 years ago.
The AIRC has ordered Telstra to reinstate a former Sydney shop sales officer who was sacked for sexual harassment after having consensual sex in the presence of colleagues after a work-related party.
The Workplace Authority has completed its assessments of the "first few handfuls" of agreements under the fairness test provisions, with some failing, some passing, and some not requiring the test, according to its director, Barbara Bennett.
The Reserve Bank says inflation will pick up to 3% a year, but there is no sign of economy-wide wage pressure despite labour shortages and the economy nearing full capacity.
Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey has attacked the credibility of a national study launched today finding low-paid women are vulnerable to exploitation under Work Choices, saying it was carried out before the fairness test changes and was methodologically flawed.
