The former national corporate sales manager for office products supplier Office National is seeking almost $1.2m in compensation and damages from the company and three directors, claiming its former chief executive sexually harassed her.
Hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses are increasing at 4.2% a year, just shy of the RBA's 4.5% "ceiling" for aggregate wage growth, new ABS data released today shows.
In an important ruling, the NSW Court of Appeal has found a security provider vicariously liable for a vicious unlawful assault by its security guards that left a man with permanent brain damage.
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The AIRC has emphasised the important role whistleblowers play in society and that they should be protected from dismissal even if their allegations turn out to be wrong, but has upheld a prestige car dealer's sacking of a sales consultant who accused his manager of stealing gift vouchers that were to be distributed to the sales team.
The AIRC has rejected a company's bid to rely on Work Choices' operational reasons exemption in an unfair dismissal case, finding it wanted a worker who was made redundant during a restructure "out" for other reasons, while in a separate matter an employer who sacked a worker on restricted duties has successfully relied on the exemption.
The 2,700 permanent employees of Citi Group in Australia will be entitled from next year to eight hours annually of paid leave to manage their personal finances.
Employers might be obliged to make super contributions when they pay some employees a lump sum in lieu of working out their notice, following an important ruling by the NSW Court of Appeal.
The Workplace Authority is yet to complete the fairness test for more than 140,000 of the 180,000 workplace agreements lodged since the new test came into effect on May 7 this year.
