New measures needed to keep older people in workforce, says ANZ chair; Social capital has workplace benefits, says PC paper; Labor's Emerson to take it up to Abbott; and WA EOT's Johnson moves to Supreme Court.
A disabled Australia Post worker who was forced out of her job because there was nowhere for her to sit down has won an important Federal Court indirect discrimination case.
Some 350 Reserve Bank of Australia employees have won a 4% a year pay increase, plus an extra payment to compensate them for shifting their annual increases from July to November, under a proposed new deal with the FSU.
Five years after Rio Tinto subsidiary Pacific Coal dismissed them, the AIRC has today ruled that 16 former Blair Athol mineworkers in central Queensland be given preference of employment at the company's new Hail Creek operation nearby.
Unions and fund managers meet over super strategies; Kodak stoppage over job cuts; RTBU and Pacific National meet tomorrow; and Work and family application mention.
The MBA has called on the Federal Government to urgently legislate to end right of entry uncertainty in the wake of yesterday's AIRC decision in the Boral case.
The TWU (NSW branch) has issued a public apology to Allied Express in settlement of a Supreme Court defamation action the transport company launched over union media comments in the lead-up to Christmas 2001.
An AIRC full bench ruling handed down today makes it clear that unions can't rely on their state entry rights to have discussions with federal award and agreement workers for whom they don't have coverage.
Income inequality has increased during the Howard Government's term, with low-income households' share of the pie falling and high-income households' share rising, according to new ABS data.
Inflation fell to zero in the June quarter, while annual inflation dropped to just 2.7% a year, according to the ABS, which released its Consumer Price Index today.
