Salaries offered to ER and IR managers have increased substantially in Brisbane and Adelaide in the past year, while HR directors and managers in most cities have done well, according to a survey by leading Australian recruitment company Hays.
Employers who have made Australian workers redundant would be barred from sponsoring foreign workers to perform the same job for 12 months, under a Labor plan to stop what it says is widespread abuse of the skilled migration program.
The first enterprise agreement for the ACTU’s overseas humanitarian aid agency formalises a 75-hour "flexible fortnight" arrangement, preserves a flat pay structure and provides for annual wage negotiations rather than fixed increases.
The proportion of male employees entitled to paid paternity leave has doubled in the four years to 2005, according to a new survey of medium to large employers by the Equal Opportunity Agency.
The Howard Government's world-first Independent Contractors Bill - to be introduced late this month or early next - will continue the owner-driver protections that exist in NSW and Victoria, import unfair contracts provisions from the Workplace Relations Act and provide three-year transitional arrangements for employees "deemed" to be employees under state IR laws, according to Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews.
UPS discriminated by refusing to hire Rastafarian because of his beard, say US EEOC; Employer discriminated against worker when it sacked her because of asthma, says UK tribunal; Walking the talk: UK IR Minister says his past two departmental heads have worked part-time; and Property business sacked worker due to her pregnancy, says tribunal.
Federal Government financial assistance for workers pursuing unfair dismissal claims will be limited to employees on average weekly earnings of $915.70 ($47,745 a year) unless they can qualify for "special consideration," according to details of the program released on Friday.
The University of Queensland sacked a senior IR academic because of its "brutal" strategy to downgrade teaching of the discipline, rather than because of his trade union activity or political beliefs, a tribunal has found.
In one of the first big retail deals the SDA has struck under Work Choices, David Jones will pay its 10,000 employees a 6.1% pay rise over two years, lift severance pay entitlements and allow workers to take up to three sick days a year without certification.
