Two directors who failed to ensure their workplace was free from bullying have had the fines against them increased from $2,000 to $21,000 by the NSW IRC, in a ruling that makes it clear that employers' OHS obligations extend to preventing intimidatory and violent behaviour at work.
A senior AIRC member has found that agreements can be certified if they contain arrangements for salary sacrifice into super but not if they require payment of site rates to labour hire employees, in a new ruling on the vexed issue of matters pertaining.
What does the ideal workplace look like? AWU national secretary Bill Shorten outlined his view in a speech delivered to the WA IR Society conference on Saturday, while he also touched on union representation and demarcations in the State's Pilbara region.
The pay gap between men and women in WA is 50% higher than the national average, according to one of the authors of the eagerly-awaited gender pay equity review commissioned by the State Government.
Research by acirrt has revealed the dove-tailing of the Federal Government's plans to both keep older employees working and to increase the percentage of workers operating outside the current workplace relations system.
The proposed 20-employee threshold for exempting small businesses from federal unfair dismissal laws is too high and five employees would be a more appropriate limit, while Electrolux shows the High Court has lost its understanding of labour law, according to Sydney University Dean of Law Ron McCallum.
In an important decision on pregnancy and family responsibility discrimination, the Federal Magistrates Court has found that Qantas discriminated against a senior flight attendant when it refused her access to her accrued sick leave because she was pregnant, not sick.
A Federal Court full bench has found an AIRC full bench wrongly reversed the reinstatement of 16 mineworkers selected for redundancy after a Rio Tinto subsidiary blacklisted them because they supported the coal mining union and opposed AWAs.
