NSW public sector nurses have convinced a NSW IRC full bench that they should be paid a 6% wage increase from January next year, despite being in the middle of a deal that provides 4% at the same time.
Some 50 award-free senior white-collar employees of a company in receivership have won access to severance benefits, after the AIRC made employment termination orders under s170FB.
The NSW IRC has highlighted the problems of letting friendly social behaviour permeate into the workplace, saying conduct that is harmless outside work hours could be considered offensive in the office.
In the first test of WA's new right of entry provisions, the State IRC has found BHP Billiton could not insist that union officials' entry be conditional on them submitting to random drug and alcohol tests.
NSW Supreme Court judge Dyson Heydon is to replace retiring High Court Justice Mary Gaudron, the court's only woman and one of only three of the seven judges on the bench with an IR track record.
A medical centre has been fined more than $5,000 for failing to adhere to staffing levels in a computer generated nursing care plan, despite the Federal Court finding no patients or nursing staff were disadvantaged by the breach.
In an important transmission of business ruling, an AIRC full bench has quashed a finding that a business transmitted when a school brought its maintenance functions back in-house.
Thousands of Victorian employers could face backpay claims, after an AIRC full bench today didn't rule on a finding that thousands of "subscriber members" of the employer body were in fact full members and respondent to federal awards via their membership.
