APESMA says "go away" money case had merit and that employer breached terms of confidential settlement; FWA refuses to accept late claim, despite representative error; Workplace laws may need to include family violence provisions, says ALRC; FWO takes adverse action case against MUA.
Fair Work Australia has found it was unfair for HJ Heinz Company Australia to dismiss a sales manager who refused to be performance managed because he feared it was designed to trigger his exit from the company.
The parliaments and courts should re-consider the traditional common law approach to employer control over employees’ private lives, in response to burgeoning use of social media and the blurring of work and private spheres, says IR academic and lawyer Louise Thornthwaite.
Greens' bill extends flexible work rights; High Court rejects Rio Tinto appeal bid; and Manager sacked for refusing performance management wins job back.
The secret nature of unfair dismissal settlements reached during FWA conciliation makes it impossible to test whether the Federal Government has achieved its promise to eliminate “go away” money, according to the author of a pilot case study in which the employer was told four weeks pay would make the matter disappear.
An “unrecognised epidemic” of sleep deprivation among standard hours workers - particularly parents - reinforces the argument for extending to carers of all school-aged children the right to request flexible arrangements, according to University of South Australia researchers.
A child care centre that dismissed a director on the basis of her pregnancy and family responsibilities has been ordered by the Federal Magistrates Court to pay her a $5500 penalty and almost $9000 in compensation.
A training company whose directors had "a propensity for ill-considered and emotional decision-making" on employment-related matters has been found by the Federal Magistrates Court to have unlawfully terminated the employment of its general manager while on she was on sick leave.
Almost 700 Reserve Bank employees have won annual average pay rises of 3.83% a year with the potential for more from a 2% annual bonus pool and a "career increment" pool that has been set at about 1% for the first year, under a new agreement with the FSU.
The Victorian Supreme Court has ruled that a senior employee is not required to re-pay a 12-week redundancy payout that her former employer wanted back after discovering it had no legal obligation to make it.
