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.
US discrimination case claims law firm forcing partners to retire; UK Government canvasses setting a default retirement age of 65, but with right to request exemption; Gender pay gap in UK is 18%, says Minister; and Casino justified in sacking female bar worker who refused to wear make-up, says US court.
The principal union representing blue collar power workers in Queensland who will receive pay rises of up to 31% over 34 months says the increase merely brings the workers into line with their counterparts in other states, but a leading recruiter maintains that it is an early sign that skilled workers have begun to exploit their bargaining power in a tight labour market.
The first certified agreement for the fast-growing Boost Juice Bars chain provides up to five days a year of unpaid study leave to its predominantly under-21 workforce and emphasises employee training in a bid to give workers portable skills and improve the national consistency of its products.
An AIRC full bench has overturned a radical ruling that it would be against the public interest to terminate expired certified agreements covering Esso contractors because of the negative effects of proposed new rosters on workers and their families.
An employer has failed to win costs for an unfair termination case despite a former employee pleading guilty to three charges over conduct for which she was sacked, while in other recent dismissal cases tribunals have refused to accept a resignation letter written by an employer and an employer's dismissal of a sick employee.