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.
The AIRC has approved four separate agreements covering Pizza Hut outlets in Victoria - despite the fact that they initially provide below-award wages.
The DEWR is reserving the right to again offer its s170LK agreement to employees, despite commencing genuine bargaining for a s170LJ union-employer agreement with the CPSU.
PM says IR changes won't cut real wages; "Caring" employer fends off computer programmer's bias claim; and Foreign exchange expert makes unfair contract claims over sales commissions.
The Mitcham Frankston motorway project joint venturers, in their agreements certified today by the AIRC, have won significant rostering flexibility that is not available under the Victorian construction industry pattern agreement, but unions say the company is paying for the increased flexibility.
In an unusual unfair contract case, an Australian teacher claims she was sacked by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church after she alleged her daughter had been sexually abused by other church employees whilst working in Papua New Guinea.
The Democrats have made it clear that they won't countenance support for the Government's legislation giving small businesses a blanket exemption from severance pay obligations. However, they are ready before they lose the Senate balance of power in July to widen the current grounds for excusing small employers from paying.
Paid maternity leave in the UK will increase to nine months by 2007 and to 12 months within five years, under a proposal by the Blair Government, which is expected to go electors in May.
