Woolworths' success in obtaining an injunction to prevent a former senior executive from moving to Franklins has reinforced employers' powers to restrain key staff.
Corporations should implement affirmative action policies in the workplace, even if female employees are against it, ANZ chief executive John McFarlane said today.
In an important decision on carers' responsibilities, the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal has found that a transport company indirectly discriminated against its former manager when it rejected her request to return to work part-time after having a baby.
Working parents would receive 10 hours a week of free care for each child aged three to four, childcare trainees would receive bonuses for completing their training and a plan would be developed to boost wages for childcare workers, under a Latham Labor Government.
A storeworker with a back injury has lost his unlawful dismissal case after the Federal Court ruled the injury meant he was no longer able to meet the inherent requirements of the position.
Work has changed in such significant and relevant ways that it is now strongly arguable that childcare and travel to and from work should be tax deductible, a Sydney conference has heard.
Breastfeeding has been a casualty of the clear precedence given in Australia to OHS over anti-discrimination obligations, the ALLA conference heard today.
Employment law has failed to keep pace with the challenges thrown up by the "new deal at work" that has slashed employees' job tenure and job security, leading US employment lawyer Katherine Stone told a conference today.
