A security guard who accidentally fell asleep on duty has failed to overturn his dismissal because he was "recklessly indifferent" to the possibility of drifting off.
Employers should carefully warn employees of what they are likely to experience if they cross picket lines, according to lawyers, after the NSW Supreme Court awarded a former Patrick manager $87,000 in damages for post-traumatic stress arising from the bitter 1998 waterfront dispute.
Unions are concerned that labour hire companies will seek to have their employment terms and conditions kept secret, after the SA IRC ordered that a labour supplier's enterprise agreement be kept from public view.
The NSW Labor Council has launched a new website that will substantially boost unions' corporate campaigning capacity, ahead of the climax tomorrow and Friday of the FSU's offensive against three of the four big banks.
An employee who contested a requirement to use a bundy clock all the way to the Victorian Court of Appeal has had his case dismissed for the third time.
Australian Airlines intends to achieve substantial flexibility on rostering, work practices and other conditions to achieve cost structures up to 25% lower than parent company Qantas.
The Victorian Supreme Court has refused to restrain a sales manager from soliciting business from clients of his former employer because the client list could have been obtained from the Yellow Pages directory.
Pattern bargaining might be appropriate in the construction industry if subcontractors are given a say in the resulting deal, counsel assisting the Cole Royal Commission told today's first hearing day in Melbourne.
The Senate might quash a new federal regulation that reinstates the exclusion of casuals with less than 12 months' service from claiming unfair dismissal.
A surge in clauses in agreements clearly spelling out union rights is a product of a more hostile industrial environment rather than a rise in union power, according to latest research from ACIRRT.
