Recent AIRC costs decisions show the dangers of going ahead with unfair dismissal cases that have poor prospects of success, while an AIRC full bench has rejected an Australian Taxation Office employee's bid to have a $19,000 unfair dismissal compensation payment replaced with an order for reinstatement.
The High Court's decision today in the Gribbles transmission of business case hasn't entirely resolved questions about whether a business transmits when one outsourced service provider replaces another, according to Flinders University Professor of Law, Andrew Stewart.
A newspaper publisher discriminated on the grounds of sex when it made a female graphic designer do more typing than her male colleagues, and treated her as a troublemaker when she complained, a tribunal has found.
In what will be a huge relief to employers, the High Court has today quashed the crucial Federal Court full bench rulings on transmission of business in Amcor and Gribbles.
Westpac says the cost of increasing its paid parental leave to 12 weeks from today will pay off by increasing post-maternal return to work rates from 70% to 80%.
An employee's unfair dismissal claim has been rejected after she failed to pay more than $7,000 in security of costs for the case, in which she claimed her emailed pictures of naked people's genitalia were "weird" and "unique" but not offensive or pornographic.
The average age of Australian workers is now 38.8 years, up from 36.6 in 1984, and workers in some industry sectors are ageing so rapidly that service delivery could be compromised, according to new research.
Telstra has been ordered to reinstate two employees after the AIRC found a management list of workers it proposed to make redundant "infected" the dismissal process and made it unfair.
The NSW IRC, ruling on an unfair contract claim, has ordered outsourced service provider EDS to provide seven months pay to an American expatriate consultant who worked on the company's $4 billion Commonwealth Bank contract.
