The CPSU has asked former One.Tel directors Jodee Rich and Brad Keeling to remove the conditions attached to repaying their bonuses, while WR Minister Tony Abbott has stepped in to provide faster access to entitlements for the doomed telco's redundant workers.
The Victorian Principals' Federation has failed in its bid to register as a union, after an IRC full bench found it was not genuinely committed to advancing members' interests and was subject to the control or improper influence of employers.
A school cleaner awarded compensation after her manager ignored her sexual harassment complaints and then demoted her, highlights the need for communication of anti-discrimination policies to reflect the ethnic diversity of staff.
The Victorian Opposition plans to use its numbers in the State's Upper House to amend the Government's Racial and Religious Tolerance Bill to exempt employers from prosecution for a first offence.
IRC upholds Telstra sacking over privacy breach; women leaving retail due to hours; solicitor who allegedly discriminated against employee wins temporary anonymity; and more.
Workers covered by WA awards have won a pay rise of $13 to $17 a week from August, after the State's IRC flowed on the federal IRC's May 2 national wage case decision.
The Federal Court has ordered the CEPU, its Victorian secretary Dean Mighell and an organiser to pay a total of $9,500 in penalties to Channel Seven for unlawfully coercing the company.
A Gold Coast call centre has incorporated the ACTU's call centre minimum standards code in its new agreement and boosted pay by 14%, coinciding with Queensland unions today launching a campaign to convince Gold Coast call centre operators to sign up to the code.
AIG chief executive Bob Herbert has called for a return to the partnership approach between employers and unions that the then MTIA used successfully in the 1970s.
