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Women in majority after Giles takes top job

Women now head peak union bodies in a majority of states, after former SA teachers' union leader Janet Giles has become the first woman secretary of the State's peak union body.

Employer strategy boosts female professional ranks

A South Australian water utility has substantially boosted female numbers in its engineering area after changing its recruitment processes and introducing new paid parental leave and work/family initiatives.

Employer discriminated on basis of impairment

An employer who retracted an offer of employment because the candidate failed a medical examination discriminated against the candidate on the basis of his impairment, a tribunal has found.

Sacked BabyCo worker gets job back

The BabyCo sales employee dismissed because she refused to work under a roster that prevented her attending her children's weekend sporting fixtures has been reinstated after negotiations between management and the union.

Entitlements dispute halts car production

Some 400 workers at a components manufacturer serving all four car manufacturers remain on strike indefinitely over an entitlements dispute, after workers voted this morning to stay out.

Survey reveals five-week maternity pay floor

Just one in 10 large companies that pay for maternity leave provide an entitlement of less than five weeks, according to a new survey.

CPI up 2.9% in past 12 months

Headline inflation is now running at 2.9%, according to the ABS, after consumer prices increased by 0.9% in the March quarter.

Globalisation to drive human rights agenda in local IR law: Kirby

Globalisation has opened the way for international human rights standards to have a greater influence on Australian IR law, the High Court's Justice Michael Kirby told a Sydney audience this evening

Taskforce to curb Queensland workplace harassment

Queensland's workplace bullying taskforce has recommended the introduction of Australia's first advisory standard on bullying prevention.

Employer body wants shift in dismissal case onus

Victoria's peak employer organisation wants to see more prescription in federal unfair dismissal laws about what constitutes a fair dismissal.

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