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Full bench finds salary packaging pertains

In an important decision on post-Electrolux bargaining delivered just before Christmas, a full bench of the AIRC has found that salary sacrificing provisions in an agreement pertain to the employment relationship.




Pregnant flight attendant awarded $25,000 in damages

A senior Qantas flight attendant has been awarded $25,000 in damages after the airline discriminated against her by refusing her access to her accrued sick leave because she was pregnant, not sick.

Union succeeds in new strategy to stymie offshoring

The AMWU has won an interlocutory injunction blocking an employer from sending offshore the work of seven manufacturing employees, after the Federal Court found the company might have discriminated against the workers because of their entitlements under an agreement.



Discriminatory to fail to provide car: Tribunal

Fairfax's The Age newspaper discriminated against a female editor when it failed to provide her with the company car it had offered to the previous male editor, a tribunal has ruled.

Flight attendants to go to AIRC over Australian Airlines bargaining

The FAAA's international division has threatened industrial action as early as Australia Day unless Australian Airlines increases pay and conditions in return for allowing flight attendants to operate further afield, while Qantas today confirmed it is considering further outsourcing of jobs.