The NSW IRC has compensated a worker who was dismissed because of her husband's misconduct, ruling that "the sins of one cannot possibly be visited upon another".
Wage increases in private sector enterprise agreements moderated significantly in the June quarter, dropping to 3.2% a year per employee from 3.6% in March, largely because of big retail agreements that paid relatively small increases, according to the DEWR.
Employers' rights to use genetic information will be severely restricted if the Government adopts new proposals by the Law Reform Commission and the Australian Health Ethics Committee.
Queensland health unions are meeting today to consider putting the government's latest bargaining proposal to the vote despite saying the revised offer, with restructured pay instalments, is a lot of "smoke and mirrors".
The beleaguered Democrats have lost an IR and work advisor who had been heralded as broadening the party's IR agenda to embrace work and life issues and greater protection of workers at the margins.
