Two executives who were the "commercial face" of a high-tech company that was developing an electronic program guide for internet television have been restrained by the NSW Supreme Court, after it found it seriously arguable that they breached their non-solicitation clauses by consulting to a competitor.
The subclass 457 temporary business employee visa scheme should be better enforced to avoid exploitation of vulnerable migrants, according to a report released today by the Victorian Workplace Rights Advocate, Tony Lawrence.
After just a week of administering the fairness test, the Workplace Authority has stopped requiring employers to complete an "additional information form" of three to seven pages when they lodge an AWA or collective agreement.
It is "simply not credible" to claim that removing AWAs would damage the highly profitable mining industry, according to a visiting economist from the Canadian Auto Workers Union.
The ALP's refusal to provide for "last resort" arbitration of bargaining disputes, and its plan to retain Work Choices' strong limits on industrial action and entry rights, suggests it is wrong for critics to portray the party's Forward with Fairness policy as simply adopting the ACTU's wish list, according to labour law academic Anthony Forsyth.
The fairness test and the uncertainty surrounding it appear to be responsible for AWA lodgements dropping for the first time since the introduction of Work Choices, while almost 55,000 AWAs are waiting to undergo the new test.
The next federal government should fund 14 weeks paid maternity leave and two weeks paid paternity leave and introduce strong rights to request part-time employment and work from home, according to an academic group's report.
AFPC exempts NSW SACS award from pay rise for work value increase; Employer wins operational reasons case; Nurse sacked for violence wins job back; Mighell open letter to Rudd; ETU ads misleading, says Hockey; Catholic book calls for more changes to Work Choices; and ICA welcomes ALP policy details.
Unions at Foster's Brewery in Yatala in Queensland and at the Cochlear implant factory in Sydney say employers at both sites are still insisting on non-union agreements despite employees overwhelmingly endorsing union representation in the agreement-making process.
Real pay rises flowing from the Fair Pay Commission's minimum wages decision today will depend on low inflation forecasts being realised over the 10-month period of the determination.
