An unfair dismissal ruling by the IRC highlights the importance of ensuring that supervisors closely monitor employees' compliance with anti-harassment policies.
Working parents in the UK with children under the age of six will soon have the right to request flexible working hours, while new legislation introduced this month boosts paid maternity leave to 26 weeks and introduces paid paternity and adoption leave.
In a crucial decision for users and suppliers of temporary labour, the WA IRC has ordered a labour hire company to pay compensation to a worker who was unfairly dismissed by a host employer.
Wage growth in enterprise agreements is steady at 3.9% a year, while enterprise bargaining is now almost universal in the federal public sector, according to the DEWR.
In a bid to provide a major boost to its Combet-era organising focus, the ACTU has decided to dip into its reserves to fund a $1m program to train workplace delegates and activists.
The ACCI has told an IRC full bench hearing the ACTU's proposed reasonable hours clause is unworkable, while employers surveyed by AIG have conceded some merit in the ACTU claim but say it fails to recognise business imperatives.
The Cole Royal Commission will start its formal hearings on December 10 in Melbourne, but without any employers or unions authorised to appear before it.
Around two-thirds of working women in New Zealand will be eligible for 12 weeks paid maternity leave from July next year, coinciding with the ACTU mounting a new push for universal paid maternity leave in Australia.
In the first test of the federal unfair dismissal jurisdiction's exemptions for casual employees since the Federal Court quashed two key regulations on November 16, the IRC has allowed a short-term casual to proceed with her unfair dismissal claim.
