Westpac says the cost of increasing its paid parental leave to 12 weeks from today will pay off by increasing post-maternal return to work rates from 70% to 80%.
An employee's unfair dismissal claim has been rejected after she failed to pay more than $7,000 in security of costs for the case, in which she claimed her emailed pictures of naked people's genitalia were "weird" and "unique" but not offensive or pornographic.
The average age of Australian workers is now 38.8 years, up from 36.6 in 1984, and workers in some industry sectors are ageing so rapidly that service delivery could be compromised, according to new research.
Telstra has been ordered to reinstate two employees after the AIRC found a management list of workers it proposed to make redundant "infected" the dismissal process and made it unfair.
The NSW IRC, ruling on an unfair contract claim, has ordered outsourced service provider EDS to provide seven months pay to an American expatriate consultant who worked on the company's $4 billion Commonwealth Bank contract.
An employer is appealing the NSW IRC's reinstatement of an employee following a ruling that appears to make it easier to win interim orders to put a worker back in their job.
To close the gap between Australian and US economic growth, Australia needs to cut minimum wages, drive people with disabilities off benefits and boost vocational education, according to a groundbreaking international benchmarking report by the OECD.
Workforce participation could be improved as the labour market tightens by reducing the cost to workers of meeting their caring responsibilities, but the Howard Government’s promised childcare debate won’t go far enough, according to a new report.
NSW’s Rail Infrastructure Corporation indirectly racially discriminated against a labour hire employee of Sri Lankan heritage because of his poor written English, a tribunal has found, while the VCAT has refused a media request to produce documents relating to a workplace discrimination claim lodged by the woman who is struggling for her life after being found in a car boot last week.
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation has been ordered to reinstate a female employee and reimburse her lost maternity pay and wages after she was found to have been unfairly selected for redundancy.
