Virgin Blue employees who have been with the company since its early days will receive free shares worth up to $6,000 when the company floats in December, while the company will also provide the opportunity for workers to sacrifice up to 20% of salary to buy shares.
In what is shaping to be a test case on pregnancy discrimination, a worker claims internet company TPG disadvantaged her when it put her in an acting rather than permanent management role after learning she was pregnant and then denied her request to resume work part-time.
Fate of higher education IR changes now in hands of four crossbench senators; Cole committee submissions due November 30; Think tank proposes opting out of awards, regional pay rates; Growth in global labour deals; Baby Boomers in SA workforce falling away rapidly; and Emails make managers stressed: survey.
As the debate over executive pay continues, a new guide released yesterday by the BCA warns that remuneration should reward performance, not failure, and that no executive should be involved in deciding his or her remuneration.
A radical new agreement covering Heytesbury Holdings' vast cattle stations in northern Australia restructures pay to recognise that workers are likely to put in more than eight-hour days.
Employers must comply with new amendments to sex discrimination laws that take effect next week and could model their approach on best practice examples provided by big companies such as Westpac, IBM and ANZ, according to HR consultant Juliet Bourke.
Australia needs a more balanced approach to skills formation to counteract the current trend towards polarisation into high skill, high reward and low skill, low reward occupations, a Senate committee inquiry into skills shortage has found.
The Federal Government has made more than 40 changes to its draft Cole-based IR package for the construction industry, which are contained in the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Bill 2003 introduced into Parliament this morning by Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews.
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews has introduced a bill today that allows third parties affected by industrial action to seek termination of a bargaining period, bans industrial action during the life of an agreement and enables the AIRC to order cooling-off periods. He has also re-introduced the crucial Termination of Employment Bill.
Cole legislation to be introduced tomorrow along with two more workplace bills; $500 fine for CFMEU official; and CSL intervention costs Federal Government $110,000.
