WR Minister Tony Abbott has today attacked moves to introduce industrial manslaughter legislation in Victoria and Queensland and resumed his advocacy on behalf of employers, this time tagging them "unsung heroes".
Workplace Express yesterday, in "Florid insults don't justify dismissal", reported that the IRC had reinstated a man dismissed for using phrases including "get the bitch on her back" while banging on a female colleague's hotel room in the belief that she was elsewhere.
In a long-running dispute that essentially deals with whether there is a transmission of business when functions are brought back in-house, Geelong Grammar in Victoria has made a s105 application objecting to Senior Deputy President Reg Hamilton arbitrating the matter.
Almost 700 teachers at independent schools in the ACT will receive a 14.5% pay rise over two years under a new multi-business agreement certified by the IRC.
A bank manager who was made redundant after the Commonwealth and Colonial State Banks merged has failed to convince the Federal Court that the move was in breach of his AWA.
A grain handler who banged on the door of a female colleague's hotel room and yelled out "f--king bitch" has been reinstated, with the IRC accepting that he did not believe she was there at the time.
A bankrupt IR and employment barrister has retained his practising licence, after the NSW Court of Appeal found that the circumstances of his case didn't make him unfit to practice.
The South Australian IRC has made some minor changes to the incapacity to pay principle in its state wage case decision, in which it flowed-on to SA award workers the $18-a-week safety net increase granted to federal employees in May.
