The Victorian Supreme Court has challenged key tenets of anti-discrimination law, in a ruling that overturns a landmark discrimination ruling and record $161,000 payout.
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Patrick Stevedores will on Monday implement new work practices that it believes will substantially lift productivity, after stevedoring employees at its Sydney terminals cleared the way for the company's new agreement to go proceed.
Employers in NSW will be required to include their company name and ABN on workers' payslips from next year, after the State Government responded to union concerns about some companies deliberately restructuring to avoid paying employee entitlements.
The internet is playing an increasingly important role in recruiting HR practitioners and employment lawyers, according to a national analysis of internet job advertising.
In a sign of the IRC's increasing willingness to encourage parties to bargain in good faith, a senior member has agreed to conduct a secret ballot to determine whether more than 150 Serco employees wish to continue working under AWAs or shift to a union agreement.
Australia now has an entrenched long hours culture that is putting excessive strain on workers, families and communities, according to a groundbreaking ACTU-commissioned report released today.
After a bitter two-year dispute, Yallourn Energy has today won the right to contract out its mining operations, reduce staffing levels and make forced redundancies under a s170MX award arbitrated by the IRC.
The IRC has refused to issue a s127 order to force up to 5,000 Holden employees in Adelaide back to work, but has strongly recommended they go back today and work programmed overtime on the weekend.
WR Minister Tony Abbott says there is no substance to Opposition claims that he is planning to make a number of appointments to the IRC before the federal election is called.
