PM says IR change won't be against interests of workers; Skilled calls for licencing to boost labour hire companies' compliance with IR laws; Submissions due for parliamentary work/family and Cole Bill inquiries; and University wins discrimination exemption for indigenous-only jobs.
A Federal Court full bench has thrown out a complaint by the Navy's former director of psychology against being forced to retire at 65, saying he has exhausted all legitimate avenues to reverse it.
The AIRC has upheld an employer's zero tolerance for theft, in the case of a truck driver who was asked to resign after he took two magazines from a damaged pallet.
EOWA releases new pay equity tool in bid to close 15% gender-based pay gap; Desk and phone costs deducted from salesworkers' commission in bid to boost productivity; OEA website promotes AWAs to small business; Federal parliamentary library releases legislation digests on BCII and bargaining fee prohibition bills; AMWU says casuals seeking permanent conversion being intimidated; and Senior line managers should conduct performance reviews, says new book.
The peak NSW union council says its latest poll of workers' perceptions shows that the Howard Government's plans to amend workplace laws to weaken unions don't have public support.
Awards and agreements would no longer be able to contain restrictions on the use of independent contractors or labour hire workers, under provisions that might be included in the Howard Government's legislation to shield independent contractors from regulation by the IR system.
A manager who poked a subordinate in the bum engaged in a deplorable IR exercise but shouldn't be blocked from working with children, a tribunal has ruled.
A child care centre was justified in dismissing its director for ignoring an instruction not to tell co-workers she had been threatened with dismissal, the Queensland IRC has found.
