A NSW RailCorp manager who was the subject of humiliating graffiti in the men’s toilets where she worked and had a pornographic magazine put under her door has been awarded $20,000 compensation, with the Administrative Decisions Tribunal finding fundamental flaws in the way the corporation dealt with the incidents.
A full bench of the Federal Court has today rejected an employee's bid to appeal an earlier ruling that allowed the ABCC to reject his choice of solicitor during one of its investigations.
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The Workplace Authority’s newly-released policy guidelines for the fairness test underline the importance of employers seeking advice when making agreements and the value of taking advantage of pre-lodgement assessments, according to ACCI’s workplace policy director, Peter Anderson.
The Australian Mines and Metals Association has decided to contribute half a million dollars to the employer groups’ proposed advertising campaign in support of Work Choices, which looks likely to start next month.
An epileptic nurse who was rostered to work a split-shift despite telling his manager that he could not do so because of his illness has won an unlawful discrimination claim.
Material before the SA IRC’s inquiry into the Federal Government’s new IR laws points “almost exclusively” to a conclusion that “the impact of Work Choices is negative for South Australian employees”, according to the Commission’s interim report.
Two former directors of a stone company who were permanently banned by a court from using the firm's allegedly confidential information in a rival business have won leave to appeal the decision in the NSW Court of Appeal.
Workplace Ombudsman Nick Wilson has called on franchisors and their peak group to help franchisees to understand and comply with their obligations to employees, after revealing that his office had investigated seven Baker’s Delight franchises last year and 11 this year.
The AIRC has reinstated a long-serving Qantas international flight attendant who was dismissed for allegedly stealing chocolates and biscuits that he had in his pockets and luggage.
