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Australian employers slow to embrace online recruiting

Australian employers are lagging at least three years behind their US counterparts in embracing online recruitment and are missing out on substantial cost and time savings, according to an e-recruitment expert.

ACTU to make living wage an election issue

The ACTU will announce today that it will campaign for a substantial boost to minimum wages for the low paid during the coming federal election campaign, claiming the IRC lacks the guts to provide a big enough increase.

When is dismissal without notice justified?

In a ruling that clarifies the circumstances where summary dismissal is not justified, the Victorian Supreme Court has awarded $157,000 to a dismissed senior executive.

Reith's WR "one-stop shop" meets the mark

The second annual report benchmarking IR inquiry and compliance services has shown that while the average cost per compliance claim increased by $115, the average completion time for cases fell to 3.7 months.

NSW passes on safety net adjustment

The NSW IRC has today flowed-on the federal living wage decision to two million employees covered by State awards.

Credit union boosts redundancy entitlements

Tasmanian credit union Heritage Island and the FSU have negotiated a two-year federal enterprise agreement that boosts entitlements for employees.

McDonald's payout to young sexual assault victim

Employers should re-evaluate their duty of care to junior employees, following a payout by fast-food giant McDonald's to a junior worker who sued after he was sexually assaulted on the way home after a late night shift.

Regular casuals win unpaid parental leave

Some 1.2 million regular casual workers have won access to 12 months unpaid parental leave, after an IRC full bench ruling today.

IRC approves AWA paying $7,000 less than award

The IRC has approved a substandard AWA under the WR Act's public interest test.

Abbatoir workers to win backpay

Abbatoir operator G&K O'Connor will have to pay out tens of thousands of dollars in backpay after the Federal Court accepted union argument that workers who refused to sign AWAs had to be paid under a 1992 enterprise agreement rather than less generous award conditions.

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