The National Retail Association has called on FWA's wage review panel to allow retail and fast food employers to deduct from any minimum wage rise the labour cost increases that flowed from award modernisation.
A company genuinely made redundant its human resources manager when it restructured its HR function and devolved responsibilities to a lower-paid HR coordinator and line managers, Fair Work Australia has found.
A company fined $43,000 by the Federal Court three years ago over a secret deal with the NUW has fended off a bid by a rival union to hold discussions in a lunch room or barbecue area that is away from management's gaze.
The NSW Court of Appeal has overturned a finding that a solicitor from specialist employment law firm Fisher Cartwright Berriman failed to inform a constructively dismissed employee of an offer made during settlement negotiations with his former employer.
Retailer Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd has admitted its treatment of pregnant employees breached the National Employment Standards, after an investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
Employers will have to report annually on "tangible" gender-based pay results rather than "good intentions" to a reinvigorated workplace equal opportunity agency if they want to tender for federal government work, the Minister for the Status of Women, Kate Ellis, announced today.
In an important Independent Contracts Act ruling, the Federal Court has found that a restraint clause in a contract between a labour hire company and Woolworths rendered unfair a separate contract between the labour hire company and an IT worker it placed with the retailer.
A national transport company has been ordered to pay $25,000 to an employee after it responded to her request for modified duties while pregnant by unilaterally changing her role and cutting her pay by $18,000.
