The ANZ bank has denied FSU allegations that it indirectly discriminated against women by targeting part-time employees when reducing working hours in its retail branch network.
The CPSU is flexing the considerable industrial muscle the looming GST-deadline has provided it to push for a better EA for tax employees, with the department's workers today voting in favour of implementing rolling bans from Tuesday on GST-related work.
The FSU has lodged a complaint with HREOC against the ANZ bank, claiming that a restructuring program designed to reduce part-time employees' hours indirectly discriminated against women.
Australian Tax Office workers are expected to vote this morning in favour of work bans on GST implementation as part of their ongoing bid to secure a better pay offer from the department.
In an important ruling for employers, Queensland's highest court has ruled that an employer who told a jobseeker he was too old hadn't discriminated against him, because the jobseeker had approached the employer "on spec" and there had been no job on offer.
The Victorian Government has allocated funds from the State Budget to a strategic IR advice unit that the Government hopes will keep it on the front foot with disputes such as the recent construction battle, and help it counter sniping from the Federal Government.
A crucial test of the new Queensland IR Act's contractor deeming provisions will now proceed, after the State's Supreme Court dismissed an employer bid to throw out the case.
