The Federal Magistrates Court has ordered a jewellery retailer to pay a former shop assistant more than $17,000 in damages after it found the company had "singularly failed its employees" by failing to provide a discrimination-free workplace.
The Federal Opposition has responded to the Government's choice of super fund legislation with a paper setting out a range of options for a choice regime.
Unions now have a new avenue for urgently halting employer actions, after the IRC today issued an interim exceptional matters order to maintain the jobs of Australian seafarers.
The NSW Nurses' Association will elect a new secretary on Tuesday to replace Sandra Moait, who plans to retire next month, while the NTEU's Victorian branch has chosen a new leadership team.
The ASU is seeking to have a Thorn Australia Pty Ltd AWA revoked after it claimed a long-term employee was threatened with termination if he refused to agree to its conditions.
Four years after the application was first filed, a full bench of the IRC will on Monday begin hearing the SDA's bid to rope-in about 19,000 retail employers to a federal award.
