A senior AIRC full bench has accepted an unfair dismissal application lodged 39 days late, after the employee, who was dismissed for abandoning her employment, argued she had informed her employer she was ill, in Africa and temporarily unable to return.
Nearly 2,000 skilled vacancies in Victoria, survey finds; Three building companies banned from Government work, fourth warned; and BDW summary of changes.
Qantas's deadline for 600 short-haul pilots to accept a new collective agreement expired last Friday, leaving negotiations with their union stalled 15 months after the last enterprise agreement expired in September 2005.
Gillard confirms Labor would axe AWAs; Queensland to bolster shield against Work Choices; NSW child employment laws now in effect; Hannon appointed president of SA IRC; Smith promoted to senior commissioner at WA Commission; and Inquiries consider workforce challenges in transport and tourism sectors.
New Federal Court Justice Richard Tracey has withdrawn from hearing an ABCC case against the CFMEU because he recently acted as counsel for the building commission in a similar prosecution.
Changes to the Workplace Relations Regulations, which make it easier for employers to comply with record-keeping and pay slip requirements, have now been released.
Fair Pay Commission chair Ian Harper has signalled a new process to review this year's higher-than-expected minimum wage increase, including a tender to design a more formal mechanism to examine the economic impact of low pay determinations.
The NSW, Victorian and Queensland Governments have agreed to streamline their workers compensation schemes to prevent a feared exodus of national companies to the Federal Government's new self-insurance option under Comcare.
A Victorian hotel employer has been fined $5,000 and ordered to reimburse underpaid wages plus interest in one of the first completed prosecutions under Work Choices.
The Victorian Supreme Court today declined to issue injunctions to stop the LHMU from making public statements about a major cleaning contractor after the union gave undertakings not to repeat claims that the company was "dodgy", it didn't use appropriate cleaning products and that its buildings "stink".
