The NSW Court of Appeal has ruled a delivery driver was an independent contractor, on the basis that his ownership of a truck, ability to designate a substitute driver and treatment as a PPS taxpayer all weighed against him being categorised as an employee.
Employees transferred from one employing entity to another during a company restructure will not be subject to any post-employment restraints unless specific provision is made for them, the NSW Supreme Court has ruled.
A full bench of the SA IRC has overturned a finding that a council unfairly dismissed a pool manager who kicked a boy in the bottom and tapped him on the back of the head for being cheeky.
Healthy employees who willingly take on stressful workloads will be unlikely to successfully argue their employer was liable for any resulting psychiatric injury, following an important High Court ruling today.
The UK's Low Pay Commission - visited yesterday by Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews - has increased minimum wages at a faster rate than growth in average weekly earnings, and intends to keep doing so.
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.
