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Privacy is an HR issue

Employers cannot rely on the employee record exemption in the Privacy Act to absolve them from HR-related responsibilities, a lawyer told an ACIRRT briefing yesterday.

Two IR systems developing in Australia

The federal IR system is now clearly employers' jurisdiction of choice, while employees stand to gain more equitable outcomes via the states, according to the head of ACIRRT, Professor Ron Callus.

3,500 retail employees win 12%, with trade-offs

In the first deal covering the Miller group's 600 apparel stores, some 3,500 employees have won pay rises totalling about 12% over 29 months plus every second weekend off for permanents, but with trade-offs including an increase in ordinary hours.

Rosters the new problem in bus drivers' deal

Around 4,000 NSW public bus drivers and other workers claim an agreement providing a 10% pay rise was unsuccessful in a ballot earlier this week because their employer reduced the wage benefits by changing rosters.

NSW unions seek labour hire industry award

NSW unions have revealed plans to seek a State labour hire industry award that would require labour suppliers to pay host employer rates.

Treat workplace stress like other OHS issues, says laywer

Employers should manage stress in their workforce just like any other OHS risk, a leading employment lawyer told a Sydney conference today.

8% of employees "telework": survey

One in 12 employees now "teleworks" during normal working hours and half of them would like to telework more often, according to an ABS survey released today.

IRC liberally interprets "short-term crisis"

The IRC has allowed an employer to provide substandard employment conditions for 22 months, to help it ride out a "short-term crisis".

$200K income cap for unfair contracts claimants

The NSW Government has watered down its package of amendments to the s106 unfair contracts laws after heavy lobbying by labour lawyers.

Rail workers to vote on new agreement

More than six thousand workers at the State Rail Authority and Rail Infrastructure Corporation are expected to vote in a fortnight on an enterprise agreement that provides an 8% wage increase over two years.

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