ACTU president Sharan Burrow this morning used the "trauma and tears" of Hilton Hotel workers to illustrate the need for improved redundancy provisions at the official launch of the peak union body's redundancy test case.
The Australian Law Reform Commission has recommended important changes to anti-discrimination laws to protect employees from misuse of genetic information by employers.
The NSW IRC has compensated a worker who was dismissed because of her husband's misconduct, ruling that "the sins of one cannot possibly be visited upon another".
Wage increases in private sector enterprise agreements moderated significantly in the June quarter, dropping to 3.2% a year per employee from 3.6% in March, largely because of big retail agreements that paid relatively small increases, according to the DEWR.
Employers' rights to use genetic information will be severely restricted if the Government adopts new proposals by the Law Reform Commission and the Australian Health Ethics Committee.
Queensland health unions are meeting today to consider putting the government's latest bargaining proposal to the vote despite saying the revised offer, with restructured pay instalments, is a lot of "smoke and mirrors".