Failing to consult with employees about potential redundancy can prove costly for employers, after a tribunal ruled that the community now expects that it will be undertaken.
The IRC's President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, has refused a Rio Tinto subsidiary's bid to stay a ruling that it unfairly dismissed 81 employees when it made them redundant.
Qantas looks to be headed for some protracted industrial action, after unions reacted coolly to its proposal for a wage freeze and profit-linked incentives.
Commissioner Terence Cole today defended his Royal Commission's appointment of DEWRSB bureaucrat Derren Gillespie, who provided strategic advice to then WR Minister Peter Reith during planning for the 1998 waterfront dispute.
Unions says Qantas is being opportunist, after last week announcing plans to implement a wage freeze and yesterday revealing that it viewed Virgin Blue's cost structures and staffing levels as a benchmark.
Good relationships with co-workers and interesting work are the two keys to achieving a highly satisfied workforce, organisational psychologist Gillian Considine told today's HRM 2001 Outlook Conference.
A WA IRC full bench has found it has power to award compensation for contractual benefits that would have accrued to an employee if his shares and options had been granted under an employment contract.
In what is set to be an important test of what constitutes a valid majority, Electrolux intends to seek approval for an agreement after its employees voted on multiple options for the deal's pay and term.
