A shop steward who published allegedly defamatory and sexist material about a senior female manager in a widely distributed workplace newsletter is to be reinstated after the SA IRC found he did not breach his employment contract.
In what will serve as a warning to employers, a WA IRC full bench has looked behind a labour hire structure set up by gaming and hotel operator Burswood Limited and found it was an attempt to contract out of an agreement's over-award wage rates.
Up to 21,000 Victorian public servants will receive a 6% pay rise over two years plus 2% if they meet performance standards and a further 1.5% in productivity bonuses, under a new agreement that is close to being finalised.
The new minority Rann Labor Government in South Australia faces the challenge of negotiating IR change with conservative independent Peter Lewis in the Lower House and winning the support of the Democrats in the Upper House, where the minor party appears to have regained the balance of power in its own right.
The IRC has set up a dedicated website for all 2002 living wage case documents, in the first full-scale use of the Commission's new technology for lodging electronic documents and sharing them between parties and with the public.
In a landmark judgment, the NSW Supreme Court has ruled for the first time that Australian courts can award exemplary damages to punish wayward employees for serious breaches of their fiduciary duty to their employer.
A seasonal employee who was dismissed just a few weeks before she was due to receive her pro-rata long-service leave entitlement has won more than $4,000 after a South Australian IR Court ruling.
The Howard Government has today introduced its much-heralded legislation to exempt employers of 20 or fewer employees from unfair dismissal laws, but it won't pass with the exemption intact.
Van Camp leaves union for Grocon IR role; Employers reject living wage claim; IRC clarifies what constitutes "common enterprise"; MUA concerned over tapping of its phone calls; and more.
