In a ruling that is instructive on balancing employees' caring responsibilities with business needs, the IRC has found that listed healthcare company CSL Limited showed "sheer bloody-mindedness" in its approach to setting hours for a female employee who needed to finish early to pick up her child.
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.
