Non-managerial workers have received a real pay increase of just 2.6% over the past six years, which falls well short of the 14% real pay increase since 1996 that PM John Howard repeatedly cites, according to analysis conducted for Unions NSW.
A pregnant office administrator who was summarily dismissed on the "pretext" of performance issues had an implied right under common law to procedural fairness from her employer, the Federal Magistrates Court has found.
An employer discriminated against a female secretary on the basis of her gender when she was the only employee not invited to a Christmas party where guests were served by a topless waitress, a tribunal has found.
A WA court has found it is not in the public interest for a commercial television station to dramatise the Howard Government's second wave IR changes by airing a covert recording of an employer allegedly explaining that he sacked an employee due to her pregnancy.
The Federal Government's right to recover funds advanced to insolvent companies to pay employee entitlements under its GEERS scheme has been thrown into doubt by a Federal Court decision.
Mitsubishi is pioneering a new way of managing its temporary labour pool, with casual workers' loadings being accrued into a fund they can use if they need time off.
HREOC has recommended the Howard Government require employers to report regularly on their employment of people with disability, in an interim report released today.
A full bench of the NSW IRC, led by the President, Justice Lance Wright, today began hearing evidence from a dozen childcare workers at the start of an LHMU pay equity case seeking wage rises ranging from $177 to $540 per week.
As the Howard Government moves toward drafting its independent contractor legislation, a new inquiry report by a Government-dominated Lower House committee has recommended contractors be regulated as commercial entities outside the traditional IR system, while the labour hire sector should be subject to a voluntary industry code of practice.
New ABS data released today appears to confirm that labour shortages are driving up wages, with trend rates of pay excluding bonuses increasing by 1.1% in the June quarter and 4% in the year to June - a new annual record.
