The AIRC will next week issue a statement that will clarify the process and timetable for the first steps in the award modernisation process, the Commission's President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, told a NSW IR Society seminar last night.
In one of the largest damages awards for sexual harassment ever made in Australia, a trainee neurosurgeon has been awarded $100,000 after a Victorian tribunal accepted her allegation against the head of her team at Monash Medical Centre in Victoria.
Victoria's Workplace Rights Advocate, Tony Lawrence, has asked Workplace Ombudsman Nick Wilson to re-open his investigation into whether the contractor that took over the Qantas valet parking operation applied duress to convince employees to sign AWAs
Some 800 white-collar workers employed by Queensland power distributor Ergon Energy will go out for four hours tomorrow morning, as they push to gain the same attraction and retention allowances provided to the organisation's blue-collar workforce.
The Federal Court has restrained Victoria Police from interviewing Police Association secretary Paul Mullett over bullying allegations, in a ruling that clarifies the Work Choices provisions that restrict injunctions in freedom of association cases.
Labour mobility should be freed up, both within Australia and within the Asia-Pacific, by 2020, according to the initial report of the Australia 2020 Summit.
Court rebuffs Woodside bid to disclose identity of email senders; PC to model Bracks options for post-2010 car industry assistance; and ACTU seeks to boost super contributions at 2020 Summit.
The Federal Court today cancelled injunctions implicating the AMWU in an unprotected strike by around 800 employees at Hawker de Havilland's Fishermens Bend plant in Melbourne, after new evidence that the union was not involved in organising the dispute.
