A Federal Court full bench is set to hear an appeal against a South Australian IR Court ruling that sidesteps the Work Choices provision relieving small businesses of the obligation to make severance payments.
High Court finds barrister liable for erroneous workers compensation advice; ABS statistical cuts a threat to IR data: Peetz; Older people healthier when in work, says ABS; ACTU calls for expanded entry rights; Put a carbon tariff on imported goods, says AMWU; and North Goonyella sacking upheld.
Union leaders heading a public campaign for the urgent abolition of the ABCC and the construction industry code and guidelines have branded the prosecution of CFMEU construction division Victorian branch vice president Noel Washington under a Labor Government as a "disgrace".
In Australia's only known prosecution of an employee for failing to provide notice of resignation, a former Griffith University lecturer has been fined $500 by the Federal Magistrates Court – a fraction of the $4,000 sought by the university.
The NSW Supreme Court has ruled that an area health service acted unlawfully when it indefinitely suspended a doctor in charge of a Sydney hospital's neonatal unit.
A new survey that reveals workers' continuing struggle to meet commitments outside of work underlines the need for a meaningful formal right for all employees to be able to request changes in working hours and to contest requests that are denied, according to University of South Australia researchers Natalie Skinner and Barbara Pocock.
Halliburton Australia's decision to terminate the services of an injured contract mining worker after less than a month's employment on probation was not discriminatory, a tribunal has found.
Qantas chief executive designate, Alan Joyce, who has headed subsidiary Jetstar since start-up, says he will continue the low-cost airline's model of directly engaging with employees when he takes over from incumbent Geoff Dixon.
nergex loses bid to stop ETU emergency work bans; Extra 86,000 workers needed by 2020 for minerals boom; Jetstar's Joyce to replace Dixon as Qantas chief executive; AFAP extends Virgin Blue coverage overseas; and Retailer backpays $247,000 to 173 staff after WO investigation.
A storeman sacked for calling a co-worker a "camel fucker" and a "wog" has lost his unfair dismissal claim in the AIRC, while his colleague who was sacked after laughing at the comments has won five weeks' pay.
