The IRC has compensated an employee after finding his employer failed to comply with the implied term to be a good and considerate employer when it to deducted overpayments from his termination payment without authorisation and failed to give him outplacement assistance and a warning of the company's difficulties.
The 14-week paid maternity leave entitlement in Sydney City Council's latest enterprise agreement provides a new benchmark for the local government sector.
The NSW Government is seeking comment by the end of the month on its draft Leave Bill, which consolidates and modernises current annual and long service laws and moves them into the State IR Act.
The Australian Mines and Metals Association has pilloried the IRC for failing to follow the intent of s127 of the WR Act and urged WR Minister Tony Abbott to amend the provision to fetter the IRC's discretion.
The WA Greens, who will determine the fate of the State Government's IR reforms, probably won't block the continuation of a statutory individual contracts stream, despite remaining opposed in principle.
A tribunal has rejected a disability discrimination complaint by a prison guard who was seriously injured on the job, after finding the injuries meant he couldn't carry out the inherent requirements of his position.
The federal Government has introduced bills to allow the ACCC to run class actions to win compensation for businesses affected by secondary boycotts and to ensure federal anti-discrimination laws apply to the states.
WA's new IR legislation introduces good faith bargaining obligations, replaces WAWAs with a more regulated individual contracts stream, boosts casual loading and repeals the most radical elements of the former Court Government's workplace regime.
Western Australia's top court has quashed a landmark decision ruling that required employers to provide genuine choice between employment under award conditions and workplace agreements.
