Remove exemptions from privacy laws for AFPC, employee records, says ALRC; LHMU calls on Starwood to end “media gag” policy"; Inflation to hit 5%, says RBA; Gillard urges Telstra to abandon Work Choices; and Recruitment company CEO wins breach of contract claim.
A labour hire company has been fined $40,000 and its director $8,000 for failing to pay three Filipino nursing assistants more than $13,000 in wages, casual loadings, penalty rates and holiday pay in breach of the Workplace Relations Act and the Nursing Homes NAPSA.
A rail maintenance company committed indirect racial discrimination when it demoted a Macedonian-born supervisor due to concerns that his poor literacy was a safety risk, the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal has ruled.
Telstra accuses ACTU of lying; Protest against swipe cared in AIRC again; Justice Branson new HREOC president; and Record OHS fine over death of Fosters worker.
A Donut King store operator who coerced and bullied a long-serving employee to sign an AWA has been fined $12,000 by the Federal Magistrates Court, following a prosecution by the Workplace Ombudsman.
Two months after locking horns in court in a union-initiated freedom of association case, the CPSU and the Australian Bureau of Statistics have reached agreement on a new protocol for negotiation, communication and access to the workplace which the union believes could be a model for all APS agencies.
Fourth day of strikes for SA teachers; AIRC sets dates for wages and allowances review; TCFU calls for new industry plan; and Big business shouldn't be winners of tax review, says ACTU
A company whose Sydney site has been used by the ALP and unions to support their case for majority rules bargaining has lost its application to have its expired agreement terminated, with the AIRC finding it was not in the public interest to do so despite accepting the individual contracts Cochlear put to its workforce were "generally superior" to the certified deal.
$9600 fine for hotel principals; Birth rate likely to have exceeded 1.9 last year, says PC; Sonny Bill Williams case to test negative covenants; and Conciliation by ACAS cuts hearing days by 75%.
