The recent amendments to the Workplace Relations Act and the Independent Contractors Act have received Royal Assent, with most of the changes to the IR legislation taking effect yesterday.
A senior court official who was sacked last year over allegations of sexual harassment has won a conditional reinstatement order after the NSW IRC found his dismissal was too harsh.
Qantas has been ordered to pay a former licensed aircraft mechanical engineer $71,692 after the Federal Magistrates Court accepted that discriminatory remarks made to him at work contributed to his depressive illness.
Revised AWAs being offered by the new owners of failed manufacturer Feltex Carpets have been rejected for a second time by the AIRC as unacceptable alternative employment because they reduce conditions in a current union collective agreement.
St George has begun offering its 8,500 employees interest-free loans of up to $4,000 to purchase ecologically sustainable infrastructure such as rainwater tanks for their home and boosted its paid parental leave from eight weeks to thirteen weeks, in a policy change announced today.
The operative date for the AIRC's flow-on of AFPC increases in minimum wages and allowances to transitional employees subject to applications filed after December 1 will be the date of the order, an AIRC full bench has confirmed.
An employee sacked for having pornographic material on his computer at work has won a new hearing of his unfair dismissal application, in a full bench ruling on the principles for determining whether a termination is harsh, unjust or unreasonable.
New Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has today, as expected, named his deputy, Julia Gillard, as the new Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations, Employment, and Social Inclusion.
