An IRC full bench has slashed the compensation for a male employee who was sacked for sexually harassing a female colleague, after the bench weighed up his "serious acts" of harassment against the employer's lack of early action.
Unions have begun a new push to discourage casual employment, with the construction union seeking to boost casual loadings and NSW unions pursuing a "job security" test case.
Rivals for the construction union's leadership have agreed to suspend hostilities that have divided the organisation and to begin a fortnight-long process to develop a peace plan.
BHP unions have announced an intensive campaign to convince shareholders to vote down the company's proposal to merge with Billiton at an extraordinary general meeting next Friday.
Maintaining good communication at home, rather than reducing working hours, is the key to achieving a balance between work and family life, according to new research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
The number of unfair contract applications under s106 of the NSW IR Act increased by 76% in the 2000 calendar year, according to data the NSW IRC has supplied to Workplace Express.
In the latest development in the leadership struggle in the construction union, the Federal Court has ruled against a move to bring forward collegiate elections for the leadership, but opened the way for any early election by other means.
The Federal Court has confirmed a loophole in the WR Act that allows principals to direct their contractors and labour hire companies to lawfully dismiss their employees for what otherwise would be prohibited discriminatory reasons.
The meatworkers' union has incorporated extraordinary allegations about abbatoir operator G&K O'Connor engaging "industrial spies" in a Federal Court case against the employer.
