The AIRC has agreed to delay a secret ballot by 24 hours to ensure that attendance at the workplace isn't hampered by the Australia-Brazil World Cup soccer clash, which will be broadcast from 1.30am eastern time on Monday, June 19.
The Navy has been ordered to pay $25,000 in damages to a former officer who was effectively demoted after she took sick leave due to a depressive illness.
A male taxi driver sexually harassed a female colleague when he proposed that she arrange a sexual liaison with her child, who he believed to be a daughter, a tribunal has found.
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.