The Coalition has been cautioned about its plans to set up a registered organisations commission if it wins office by an IR academic who says a similar body established by the Thatcher Government received an underwhelming response.
While Queensland Health did not discriminate against a male nurse when it denied his application for paid "maternity" leave to care for his newborn child, the clarity of the agency's parental leave policies left "much to be desired", QCAT has ruled.
A prison officer sacked for exposing his erect penis to an undercover policewoman in a music school corridor has had his reinstatement overturned, after a NSW IRC full bench said his failure to acknowledge his guilt compromised his role in rehabilitating prisoners.
The Fair Work Commission has found that restricting to three a year the number of statutory declarations employees could rely on as proof of illness breached the NES, but has otherwise dismissed the CFMEU's objections to a mining company's stricter new attendance policy.
In a decision that demonstrates the breadth of an enterprise agreement introduction of change clause, the Fair Work Commission has ruled that Melbourne's metropolitan firefighters should have been consulted over the introduction of a one-hour daily limit on personal internet use.
The federal government has attacked the Opposition's "replacement wage" approach to paid parental leave, maintaining it is inequitable and based on European-style insurance schemes unsuitable for Australia.
A tribunal has found a Gold Coast resort vicariously liable for the s-xual harassment of a female worker and that its mishandling of her complaint contributed to a psychiatric injury.
The FWC has taken into account the extreme offensiveness in Chinese culture of an insult conveyed in Mandarin by one Chinese-speaking employee to another, in ruling a mining company was justified in sacking the perpetrator.
A youth detention centre facilities manager who was sacked for divulging confidential information to Melbourne radio station 3AW's Rumour File segment has won compensation after the Fair Work Commission found the Victorian government had not followed the misconduct clause in the state public service enterprise agreement.
The operator of a Victorian freight and road transport business has been fined more than 85% of the maximum penalty for underpaying a former truck driver and then engaging in "asset stripping" to avoid liability.
