Some 45% of Australian workers admit to faking sickies, largely to look after dependents due to both partners working increasing hours in the workplace, a survey by a recruitment company has found.
More than 6,500 employees of the Australian National University in Canberra have won 20 weeks paid maternity leave and further paid time off if they return to work at the end of their paid leave.
ACCI, the AIG and the Federal Government have today announced they are supporting a $10 increase in the federal award safety net in response to the ACTU's $26.60 Living Wage claim for 2004.
The Federal Court has ordered Airservices Australia to reimburse the cost of income protection insurance to air traffic controllers, even though it provides its own insurance policy for the benefit of employees.
ACCI calls on ALP to return to Keating IR vision; AIRC bans industrial action over Qantas payroll glitches; and UK appeal court upholds pregnancy discrimination ruling.
The AIRC has outlined the steps required for employers to make an enterprise agreement directly with employees, after twice rejecting the application of a company seeking to ratify a deal under s170LK.
In the wake of last week's leak of the initial report prepared by a work and family taskforce, Prime Minister John Howard has today rejected claims his Government failed to respond to the advice in the document.
A tribunal has allowed a corrective services agency to discriminate on the basis of sex for a five-year recruitment drive aimed at attracting more female officers to the job, in one of several anti-discrimination exemptions granted recently in two States.
