An employee has won a full bench appeal on procedural fairness grounds, in an out-of time unfair dismissal matter the IRC dealt with via correspondence.
A move away from performance-based pay, less individual monitoring and formalised job share arrangements are key features of a new deal between the ASU and the RACV covering the organisation's roadside assistance call centre employees.
Rio Tinto has poured cold water on claims that it is abandoning one-on-one employment relationships with its move to non-union federal collective agreements for its major WA mining operations.
A Telstra employee who was found to have stolen a mobile phone belonging to the company and allegedly lied about it when questioned has been reinstated, following an IRC ruling.
The "union wage premium" for workers covered by federal enterprise agreements is in jeopardy, after shrinking to just 0.1% in all current agreements and disappearing in the latest quarter, according to data released today by the DEWR.
A Queensland transport company which was found to have breached freedom of association laws when it dismissed an employee last year has been ordered to reinstate him and pay compensation in a supplementary decision by the Queensland IRC.
In a bid to counter the ACTU's contention that there are limited flow-on effects from living wage increases, the ACCI says a survey it commissioned reveals that three out of 10 firms also paid the rise to over-award employees and two out of ten to non-award workers.
The ACTU has announced plans at its executive meeting today to advance casual rights via a test case and enterprise bargaining and to conduct a national survey of union members to help determine the direction of its organising, campaigning and industrial strategy.
Court awards indemnity costs after landmark exemplary damages ruling; equal pay claim at printing company to proceed; federal Labor abandons language of class struggle in pitch for middle ground; AMWU seeks to cover SDA's car sales turf; and more.
