The Queensland Supreme Court has upheld a finding that Virgin Blue discriminated against eight over-36 women who applied for cabin crew jobs but were rejected due to their age.
A British school has won a legal appeal over its right to require a Muslim employee to remove her veil while teaching students, even though the policy was indirectly discriminatory on religious grounds.
Former Commonwealth Bank head of people services, Les Cupper, has urged HR practitioners to abandon "HR-speak" and adopt the language of business, or face being increasingly marginalised.
Union PR specialists Essential Media Communications has significantly increased leave and training provisions in a new collective agreement with the MEAA.
Some 11,000 Qantas customer service, administration and IT employees will be seeking a 6% annual pay rise, 12% super contributions and maintenance of award conditions in an enterprise bargaining claim expected to be served on the airline by the ASU this month, ahead of the April 3 deadline for shareholders to accept a buyout by the APA private equity consortium.
There is no evidence that the Fair Pay Commission's first minimum wages determination last year added to inflation or unemployment, according to its chair, Professor Ian Harper, who also said today that he would be proceeding "carefully and with great deliberation and consideration" with rationalisation of pay and classification scales.
The CPSU says the OWS is delaying offering a non-union collective agreement to around 100 of its employees because they would vote against it, as most of them want a union agreement instead.
