A NSW IRC full bench has upheld a finding that a chief executive was treated unfairly when he was lured to the job by an executive search company's misleading representations. However, it cut his severance payment from 18 months to 10 months – a reduction worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
An employer was justified in dismissing an employee for gross misconduct after she made a "deliberate, premeditated decision" to go to sleep under her desk during a night shift, the NSW IRC has found.
After initially offering AWAs to employees throughout its Australian operations, The Smith Family has struck a s170LJ certified agreement to cover its 300-plus workers. The deal includes a novel salary packaging arrangement that involves workers returning part of their packaging benefit to the employer.
Employers are advertising more often and in more channels to attract good applicants, says ANZ chief economist; and OECD urges Australia to develop better strategy for mature age workers.
The NSW IRC says Linfox was right to dismiss a truck driver who tested positive for amphetamine and methamphetamine, despite TWU concerns over the drug-testing procedure.
The new non-union agreement for Prime Minister John Howard's own department mandates that employees take at least five days annual leave, while any recalcitrants can be directed by department head Peter Shergold to have a break.
A female employee's longstanding susceptibility to panic attacks was no reason to reduce her $41,000 damages payout, a tribunal has ruled, after finding her male boss continuously pressed her to have sex with him.
A North Queensland ferry skipper has won his job back and lost pay, after the Queensland IRC accepted that he’d been sacked because of his role as a union delegate, member and trade union activity.
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission today released a seven-point checklist to help employers draft anti-discrimination policies, as part of a new toolkit for employers.
