New owner free to put old employees on probation; Unauthorised toilet breaks justify dismissal; Childcare worker's union rep should have stepped-in: Tribunal; and AIRC turns to the dictionary to define “unfair dismissal”.
The NSW IRC has found an employer's misleading conduct made an executive's contract unfair under the State's s106 unfair contract provisions, in the first full bench ruling on unfair conduct since the NSW Court of Appeal's crucial Sydney Water judgment.
Female employees at electrical products manufacturer HPM Industries Pty Ltd are entitled to four weeks paid maternity leave, while workers of retirement age can pocket a special one-off $5000 payment if they pass on their skills via an extended notice period, under the company’s fifth-generation enterprise agreement.
The Victorian Government has today unveiled a proposal to allow workers to take two months' long service leave after 10 years, rather than waiting 15 years to access three months leave.
The NSW Police Service has been ordered to pay $10,000 in damages for placing a constable on restricted duties because of an abnormal blood condition called sickle cell trait.
A NSW council has been ordered to pay a former general manager $139,000 in salary and bonuses after the State IRC found his contract was terminated early and without adequate notice.
The OECD has urged the Howard Government to reduce the number and scope of allowable award matters and cut the level of minimum wages, with the aim of lifting Australian labour productivity and labour market participation levels as the population ages.
A pathology company was justified for dismissing a worker who took a blood sample from the wrong person because the worker had made a fundamental breach of company procedures, the AIRC has ruled.
