A new s170LK enterprise agreement made directly with employees at the Victorian office of the Australian Institute of Management provides no safety net increases, with remuneration boosts available from merit-based rises and organisational performance bonuses.
The attempt to register the new BLF has foundered, after an IRC full bench found its structure "fundamentally undemocratic and unrepresentative" and the management of its affairs "inefficient".
The Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission has ruled that it doesn't have the power to hear a discrimination complaint from a woman engaged in London to work in Australia's High Commission.
In a case that might expose employers to significant damages for dismissing workers - particularly managers - employed under contract, a Federal Court full bench has upheld a court-ordered payment of $20,000 to a sacked senior manager for losing the chance to renew his contract.
Solicitors acting for unfair dismissal claimants are immune from IRC costs orders, after the Commission found it has no power under s170CJ to make such orders.
The construction union has achieved a breakthrough in its 36-hour week campaign, signing up four major builders to a deal which phases in the shorter week over four years.
More than 20,000 union members have taken up the ACTU/Virtual Communities deal of a PC and email access for around $10 a week, according to the Sharan Burrow, the ACTU's new president.
In a warning to employers not to discriminate against employees participating in protected industrial action, the Federal Court has found a manufacturing employer discriminated against two casual employees it laid off.
