BankWest will pay an annual increase of up to 4.5%, under a new two-year deal with the FSU that the bank's 2,500 employees will vote on late this month.
The Queensland IRC has refused to certify an agreement between the AWU and a Catholic nursing home for breaching the no-disadvantage test, after the nurses' union objected to the deal.
In his first public speech since stepping down from a 13-year reign as the head of the CBA, David Murray has warned employers that they will be at a competitive disadvantage if they fail to use the new tools available under the Howard Government’s second wave of IR change.
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.