The NSW Police Service has been ordered to pay $6,500 in damages for its direct discrimination against an officer on the grounds of disability when a "blanket policy" denied him the opportunity for a promotion.
A five-member bench of the High Court has found that an employee who was severely injured in a car accident after stopping to have a meal with her grandmother was on her way home from work and was entitled to make a journey claim.
The ACTU looks like succeeding across the board in its bid to extend parental leave to casual employees, with its main opponent, the Australian Hoteliers' Association (AHA), now likely to support the change.
The Federal Court has found that there was no serious case to be tried in a Western Australian coal mining company's bid for penalties and damages against the CFMEU (mining & energy division) and its State secretary over industrial action taken during a bargaining dispute.
Challengers to the CFMEU construction division's national leadership today presented a petition to the union which they say provides the basis for a referendum to provide for direct election of leaders by members.
In an important freedom of association ruling, a Federal Court full bench has found that former Telstra ER head Rob Cartwright - now a senior member of the IRC - discriminated against award workers and gave an improbable explanation for doing so.
ACCI has supported an increase of up to $10 in the federal minimum wage of $400.40, but wants the IRC's living wage full bench to refuse any increases for higher classifications.
The Queensland IRC has made it clear that union encouragement clauses - allowed under State legislation - cannot be used to gain leverage in coverage disputes.
