Legislative amendments to protect employees who ask about their employment entitlements has passed the Victorian Parliament, after Labor combined with the Nationals and Liberals to defeat further changes sought by the Greens in the Upper House.
A NSW hospital has been ordered to pay a nurse $26,000 in damages for discriminating against her and victimising her by failing to return her to her previous duties when she resumed work after maternity leave.
The AIRC has ordered the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide records of employee counselling sessions with a key witness in a controversial unfair dismissal case, despite government objections that the documents were confidential and subject to public interest immunity.
The introduction of Work Choices has seen an explosion in the number of businesses using service trusts - via $2 companies - to employ their workers, according to the LHMU.
Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has acknowledged that a company owned by his wife under-paid some of its workers, but said it was an "honest mistake" she had sought to rectify.
Bargaining agents' fees have been banned from federal agreements since 2003, but the Coaltion will nonetheless on Monday introduce an amendment to the Workplace Relations Act to specifically outlaw them - and the ALP will support it.
The Australian & International Pilots Association has won the right to represent flight crew in all Qantas group airlines - including its burgeoning low-cost operations - after the AIRC rejected objections from Qantas and the rival pilots union, the AFAP.
Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey has asked the Office of Workplace Services to investigate reports that a NSW motel has AWAs that cut protected award conditions but paid only the federal minimum wage.
An employee's rate of pay including annual leave loading - not how much they actually received - is the test for determining whether an unfair dismissal claim falls below the $98,200 a year salary cap, according to an AIRC decision.
Mental illness and nervous conditions are the most significant health-related obstacles to greater workforce participation, according to a new Productivity Commission report.
