ACT Health discriminated against a pathologist when it presumed she had a psychiatric illness and suspended her on full pay, a discrimination tribunal has found.
The Federal Government will from July establish specialist centres in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth to process subclass 457 visa applications and has also allocated extra resources to clear the current backlog by June 30, Immigration Minister Senator Chris Evans said yesterday.
Victorian teachers to be wage pacesetters; Qantas engineers' strike ballot closes Thursday; SA IRC special sitting to welcome new member; and Unions NSW resolutions to NSW ALP conference now available.
The NSW labour movement's parliamentary and industrial wings have vowed to drive a hard bargain in negotiating a national IR regime with federal Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard, insisting that the state's worker-friendly architecture form the basis of the new system.
The NSW ALP’s supreme policy-making body today for the second time in 24 hours sought to assert its authority over its parliamentary leadership, after Premier Morris Iemma announced he would defy the party and go ahead with power privatisation plans.
NSW Treasurer Michael Costa remained defiant this evening after the State ALP conference voted by a margin of seven to one against the Iemma Government’s plans to privatise and lease out the state’s power assets.
AWU calls for ground rules for Pacific Island migration scheme; Coalition criticises Labor for blocking FOI IR request; AIRC refuses strike ballot over linkage of side deed to enterprise deal; and Federal Government puts $4m into no sweat shop campaign.
In the first use of a provision of the BCII Act that building unions have long labelled draconian, a Victorian CFMEU official is facing the possibility of six months jail after he refused to attend an ABCC interview.
NSW unions will seek endorsement of an IR policy that would seek to roll back more of Work Choices than proposed by the Rudd Government and favour harmonisation over a unitary national system, at an NSW ALP conference that will be dominated by debate over the Iemma Goverrment’s plans to privatise and lease publicly-owned power assets.
Removing same-sex bias to affect leave, workers comp and super; PM calls for greater mobility for public servants; New centre to redeploy APS workers displaced by Rudd razor gang; WO can prosecute pre-Work Choices AWA duress, court finds; Full bench rejects unfair dismissal appeal by Coles workers accused of property damage; AIRC reinstates stevedore without backpay, after finding employer evidence “surreal"; Catholic church urges AFPC not to take away tax cuts for low-paid Burrow to meet SA employees over workers compensation; and World HR Congress coming to Australia in 2012.
