A female salesperson was sexually harassed when she overheard a butcher telling a male workmate he'd rather be in a spa with a bourbon in one hand and a c*** in the other, a tribunal has found.
The Queensland IRC has ordered an employee sacked for alleged misappropriation to pay $110,000 in costs, including indemnity costs, after finding she forced her former employer to incur "a huge amount" of costs but never intended to proceed with her unfair dismissal trial.
Labour shortages might be starting to drive up wages, with today's ABS data showing a trend quarterly increase in pay rates excluding bonuses of 1.1% for the March quarter and 3.9% annually - the highest year-on-year growth since the Bureau first released the statistics in 1998.
The Howard Government should exempt small businesses from the looming super choice regime, rather than unfair dismissal laws, Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley told a small business summit in Sydney today.
Employers should consult with employees before implementing anti-smoking policies, the NSW IRC ruled yesterday when it reinstated a worker unfairly dismissed for possessing cigarettes at work.
Employers will have to be wary when advertising commission-only jobs, after Wizard Home Loans yesterday conceded it had engaged in misleading conduct in breach of the Trade Practices Act when it made representations to a mobile lending manager that he would earn far more than he ended up taking home.
Tasmania's Supreme Court has rejected a sex discrimination claim by a social worker who breached her employer's self-disclosure policy by insisting that she tell all clients upfront that she was a lesbian and a sex worker.
Worker shortages now prevail across the economy, putting labour productivity into reverse and driving employers to conduct more frequent salary reviews and offer more non-pay benefits, according to the Reserve Bank.
NSW Attorney General Bob Debus yesterday introduced into Parliament his much-heralded legislation to restrict monitoring of workers by computers, cameras and tracking devices.
