Queensland businesses employing fewer than 15 employees will continue to be exempted from severance pay obligations, after a State IRC full bench rejected unions' bid to introduce a level playing field.
A cafe has been ordered to pay $2,500 in damages for discriminating against a 46-year-old chef who responded to a job advertisement that sought an employee to join a "young team".
Qantas has struck an in-principle three-year deal with the ASU that pays a 3% annual wage increase to some 10,500 employees, while NUW members have voted down their proposed new deal with the airline.
Both employer bodies and unions will argue that salary packaging pertains to the employment relationship when an AIRC full bench in Adelaide next Monday and Tuesday hears a crucial test case on what can be included in enterprise agreements.
A female underground mine technician has won a two-year battle to establish that she was unfairly dismissed when her employer made her position redundant while she was on maternity leave. It then failed to provide her an alternative position with comparable status and equivalent pay.
An employer was less than considerate towards a working mother when it unilaterally changed her working hours, but it didn't unfairly dismiss her for failing to start on time, the AIRC has ruled.
BHP Billiton's approach to disciplining train drivers at its Pilbara iron ore operations has been put under the microscope in two new WAIRC full bench appeal rulings.
A downward trend in wages in private sector agreements has been reversed, coinciding with a warning from the Reserve Bank's deputy governor that continued economic expansion will require greater productivity and better matching of labour supply and demand.
Australia Post was right to dismiss an employee who told co-workers "I'll stab the lot of you" while holding a knife used to open mail bags, the AIRC has ruled today.
