The Federal Government is extending its General Employee Entitlements and Redundancy Scheme (GEERS) to cover more workers and wages unpaid in the three months before an employer becomes insolvent.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics was justified in sacking an executive who manipulated the organisation's footy tipping competition to favour himself after game results became available, an AIRC full bench has ruled.
Virgin Blue discriminated against older applicants for flight attendant positions when it was accelerating its recruitment during a rapid growth phase in 2001-02, Queensland's Anti-Discrimination Tribunal ruled today.
A self-confessed "touchy-feely guy" has failed to overturn his dismissal for sexually harassing male and female employees he supervised at a Victorian Government juvenile justice facility, but his employer hasn’t got off scot-free, with the AIRC recommending it remedy a pervasive inappropriate culture.
The Victorian Law Reform Commission has recommended a generally "light touch" regulatory system to protect workers' privacy, but with mandatory codes, prohibitions and civil penalties for extreme forms of covert surveillance and genetic testing.
Some 1,500 journalists and photographers working on metropolitan daily newspapers for Rupert Murdoch's News Limited will have their conditions protected from the Howard Government's second wave IR changes and receive a 7.5% pay rise over two years, under an agreement certified by the AIRC today.
The AIRC on Friday certified a new three-year non-union agreement for pilots and first officers employed by Qantas subsidiary Jetstar that pays a 3% annual increase and extends coverage to the new base in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Productivity on the Adelaide docks reached a new high of more than 30 container movements an hour in the June quarter, while in other ports productivity reached a plateau between 2001 and 2004, according to the Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics.
Women comprise 58% of education sector employees and 51% of its full-time workers, but account for only 28% of chief executives and 43% of managers, according to a new report by the federal equal opportunity agency.
