An AIRC full bench has ordered an employer to pay $9,000 of costs borne by a dismissed construction labourer who defeated a claim that the AIRC had no jurisdiction to hear his unlawful termination claim because he was allegedly a director of the company.
The High Court's Justice Michael Kirby has highlighted the role of "the now often despised" IR tribunals in removing gender and pay inequality, saying that it wasn't secured by individual bargaining or workplace agreements.
The ACTU claims a new non-union meat industry agreement proves the fairness test isn't working, because the deal cuts pay by up to $88 a week, provides an annual pay rise of just 2% a year, removes rest breaks and annual leave loading and reduces overtime rates, but fails to fairly compensate workers.
A senior member of the AIRC has rejected Australia Post's application to extend the notice period for industrial action from three to seven working days under exceptional circumstances provisions, but has said three working days would to be too short for school teachers.
Employers are treating Work Choices' requirement to provide unpaid maternity leave as an "aspirational goal" and believe the operational reasons exemption under the law gives them the right to sack or demote pregnant women, according to a new academic report commissioned by Victoria's Workplace Rights Advocate.
AIRC rejects employer bid for seven working days notice of industrial action; New anti-Work Choices commercial highlights Cochlear dispute; Animal liberationist gets off boycott charge after court says action environmental not industrial; Strike ballot granted for 1,000 Royal District Nursing Service nurses; ALP scores better against AMMA scorecard; and New role for Skene.
First settlement in ABCC's Perth 107 prosecutions; Teachers' pay rises in WA and SA; WO prosecutes A-Mart over unpaid work; AIG sets up legal practice; and Foster's workers back on the job.
More than 440 agreements have ceased to operate after failing the Government's fairness test, and the Workplace Authority has refused to pass another 15,277 until changes are made or more information provided, according to the WA's latest monthly statistics released today.
In one of two important Queensland test cases on whether councils are constitutional corporations, the state industrial court has thrown out - on the basis that it is not a registered organisation - a bid by the Local Government Association of Queensland to intervene.
