Employers should provide clear and easily understood reasons for sacking a worker, preferably in writing, or risk having the dismissal overturned, following an IRC decision.
Wollongong University has been fined $5,000 for breaching restrictions on fixed-term employment in its enterprise agreement, after the first judicial test of tertiary education industry award and agreement provisions that promote continuing employment.
An employer misled a worker who it believed was drunk at work by failing to inform him of what blood alcohol reading constituted a failure, an IRC full bench has found.
The IRC's Justice Alan Boulton and former Queensland IR Department Director-General Bob Marshman are two of a select group of IR and HR people who received Australia Day honours.
Victorian IR Minister Monica Gould has launched a $500,000 grants program that aims to build better relationships between employers, employees and unions in the manufacturing industry.
OneSteel's Geelong Wiremill has forged a new agreement that pays employees a 4% annual increase, in a deal that reflects a realignment of wages across the former BHP steel operations.
Unions in industries where maintaining production is critical will be at high risk of common law damages claims if they take unprotected industrial action, following a crucial IRC full bench decision.
The coal mining union's national office is set to move in to the MUA's national HQ in Sydney, but leaders of both unions insist it is not the precursor to a formal merger.
SDA legal officer takes East Timor job; Calver is new Abbott advisor; Giles to run new Ansett's HR; Bussell takes HR role at Australian Airlines; and more.
