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Transport Accident Commission employees who move from Melbourne to Geelong as part of the organisation's planned relocation will have the transition made easier by either a $15,000 lump sum, a payment equal to 20% of their salary or an additional 8 weeks paid leave.

A Victorian charity will be able to ask the AIRC to consider its financial position if it claims to be unable to afford the last of four 3% pay rises under a new enterprise agreement voted on today.

In a ruling likely to prompt many employers to review their sex discrimination policies, a tribunal has found that a club manager sexually harassed a female employee when he called her "babe" and "honey".

Virgin Blue faces a damages payout of up to $80,000 to eight over-36 women who applied for flight attendants' jobs but were rejected because of their age, following an anti-discrimination tribunal ruling.

The information in a leaked DEWR email stating the department was introducing tough new rules on sick leave certificates for AWA workers was wrong, secretary Peter Boxall said today.

DEWR has become the first federal public sector agency to enforce the tough Work Choices sick leave certificate regime, requiring all AWA employees to produce medical certificates for single day absences.

In a case that could have implications for rostering across a range of industries, two Qantas flight attendants with caring responsibilities have intervened in the certification hearing for the new Qantas short haul cabin crew agreement, arguing it shouldn't be approved because it is discriminatory.

The ALP and CPSU say the Federal Government is failing to live up to its own rhetoric on choice of agreement, after a Treasury body offered AWAs to its employees, despite almost 90% of them petitioning for a collective deal.

Low-paid workers in the UK will later this year get a 6% pay rise, well above inflation and average weekly earnings growth, after the Blair Government accepted a recommendation by the pay-setting body on which the Fair Pay Commission was modelled. And in an echo of one of the Work Choices debates, the UK body has refused to accept that employers should be able to count non-cash benefits as part of the minimum wage.

A labour hire employee who refused to move from a long-term placement to another host employer has lost an unfair dismissal claim, but the NSW IRC hasn't ruled out the possibility that such an employee could have an implied term in their employment contract giving them a right to stay with the host.