The Federal Court has found that the job a Qantas worker was doing when injured – not the work he had done with the airline while rehabilitating – was what mattered when considering whether he was unlawfully terminated because of his disability.
In two rulings that illustrate the importance for recruitment companies and employers of selecting people on the basis of their suitability for the job, a tribunal has found one recruitment company discriminated against a transgender person, but that another didn't.
Wages for call centre employees have grown at 3.82% in the current financial year, down from last year's average increase of 4.5%, according to an authoritative survey.
The federal secretary of the AMWU food and confectionery division has retained her position by only 16 votes in the union's national election which was declared today.
Employers need to be careful to re-employ workers in their previous capacity after a reinstatement order, especially in "industrially charged" workplaces, an IRC full bench has highlighted.
The NSW Opposition plans to resurrect much of the Coalition's dismantled 1991 Act if it wins next March's election, introducing a separate stream of non-union collective agreements and a workplace commissioner to "assist" non-union employees and employers.
NSW IR Minister John Della Bosca has thrown his support behind a paid maternity leave scheme for workers in the State jurisdiction, indicating that the Government could intervene in the parental leave test case launched by the TWU.
The chief executives of top performing companies tend to have a "charisma bypass", but succeed because of their strong core values and commitment, according to the keynote speaker today at the AHRI annual convention.
