An employer who delayed installing a modem to allow a parliamentary hansard sub-editor with parental and caring responsibilities to work at home two days a week indirectly discriminated against the employee, according to a Victorian tribunal.
In the first fine ordered against a union official for breaching freedom of association laws, an NUW delegate has got off with a $400 penalty while his union has escaped scot free.
In a landmark decision on casual workers' job security, the South Australian IRC has ruled that casual clerks in the state's private sector can choose to become permanents after a year of ongoing and regular employment.
In a move that could significantly delay or derail the certification of the Campaign 2000 break-out group agreements, Workplace Express understands that a significant IR player is considering intervening in their certification on the grounds that they are a multi-employer agreement and must therefore be approved, if at all, by a full bench of the IRC.
In what could be an important test of the ability of non-union employees to validly notify protected industrial action, Esso has this evening applied for s127 orders against industrial action planned by offshore oil workers represented by MUA shelf company MUA-HTS.
Unions that fit criteria for both enterprise and traditional employee associations can only seek registration under the Workplace Relations Act's enterprise union provisions, following an IRC full bench ruling today on the Victorian Principals Federation.
Most of the one-third of Victorians continuing to work under the Kennett Government's industry sector system don't get the overtime rates of pay, annual leave loading, weekend penalty rates or shift allowances enjoyed by federal award employees, according to a new workplace survey commissioned by the Victorian IR Taskforce.
Australia's biggest labour supply company, Adecco, is committed to ensuring its temp workers receive equal pay with permanent employees at all sites it supplies, says its Asia Pacific CEO, Ray Roe.
