The Australian manufacturing sector will generate a quarter of its economic activity offshore by 2008, which, when combined with other pressures such as competition from low-cost countries, could lead to job losses totalling 30,000 over the next 12 months alone, according to the AiG.
Major building owners, managers and cleaning contractors will be pressured to adopt a union code of principles as part of an international campaign for cleaners' wages and conditions launched by the LHMU today.
Federal Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews has, as expected, responded to employer concerns about the onerous new record-keeping requirements imposed by Work Choices, announcing today that no hours records would have to be kept for workers earning more than $55,000 annually and lacking an overtime entitlement, and that daily start and finish times would not have to be recorded for other employees not entitled to overtime.
A tribunal has found that it was sexual harassment for an employer to tell his receptionist that he loved her and wanted her and her children to move in with him.
Queensland Health has been ordered to pay $14,665 in compensation for the sexual harassment of a former employee who was subjected to unwanted touching, leering and sexual remarks and innuendo by a co-worker.
A High Court full bench majority has today ruled that 13 female long-term casual NSW school teachers were not subjected to indirect discrimination when they were denied access to a pay scale that allowed permanent teachers to earn up to $10,000 more each year.
Transport Accident Commission employees who move from Melbourne to Geelong as part of the organisation's planned relocation will have the transition made easier by either a $15,000 lump sum, a payment equal to 20% of their salary or an additional 8 weeks paid leave.
A Victorian charity will be able to ask the AIRC to consider its financial position if it claims to be unable to afford the last of four 3% pay rises under a new enterprise agreement voted on today.
In a ruling likely to prompt many employers to review their sex discrimination policies, a tribunal has found that a club manager sexually harassed a female employee when he called her "babe" and "honey".
Virgin Blue faces a damages payout of up to $80,000 to eight over-36 women who applied for flight attendants' jobs but were rejected because of their age, following an anti-discrimination tribunal ruling.
