Despite statistics showing one in five Australians suffer from mental illness, a poll of ASX top 300 companies has revealed more than 40% of them did not perceive it as a potential risk to their organisations.
Endeavour Energy will lodge an appeal against Fair Work Australia’s precedent-setting decision which approved swab tests for drug and alcohol testing and found urine testing was unjust and unreasonable.
The Fair Work Ombudsman is taking action against Jetstar over workplace breaches in a case examining how the Fair Work Act covers overseas-based workers. The FWO alleges NZ-based Jetstar Airways Ltd breached Australian workplace laws by engaging six trainee pilots on NZ individual contracts when it was “foreseeable the work they were to perform was predominantly in Australia”.
Federal Workplace Relations minister Bill Shorten says critics who blame the Fair Work Act and industrial relations for the nation’s productivity woes are looking for solutions in the wrong place.
In a deceptively simple speech packed with big ideas at the Sydney Institute on 4 April 2012, Shorten outlined his take on why productivity has lagged in the last decade.
Middle managers bear the brunt of stress in the workplace compared to their senior counterparts, according to a workplace consultancy director.
People in boring jobs and those who believed they were not paid fairly also suffered from high stress.
Tasmania’s Work Health and Safety Act 2012 (No 1) received Assent on 18 April 2012. Due to commence 1 January 2013, the Act makes Tasmania the sixth jurisdiction to join the ‘harmonised’ work health and safety regime. Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia have yet to pass legislation enacting the Model legislation. Click here to ...more
A prominent employment lawyer has claimed the proportion of dismissals likely to face legal challenge has risen dramatically since the implementation of the Fair Work Act.
He has also accused dismissed workers of using reinstatement claims to boost ‘go away’ money past the maximum compensation amount allowed.
Thomson Reuters are offering Practical Payroll Workshops in both Sydney and Melbourne. This course looks at the whole myriad of payroll functions and in one day brings payroll staff up to date with the latest changes, as well as focusing on complex areas or problems noted in the payroll function and importantly what needs to be accommodated in the future.
Thomson Reuters is once again hosting a series of advanced payroll workshops in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. The Workshops look at a myriad of payroll functions and in one day bring payroll staff up to date with the latest changes, while also focusing on complex areas.
Sydney architectural firm Johnson Pilton Walker has won a competition to design a national memorial honouring Australians who have lost their lives at or due to work.
The $3m memorial will be constructed in Kings Park in Canberra and is expected to be finished in time for Canberra’s March 2013 centenary celebrations.
Employers are set to face rigorous and extensive new gender equity reporting requirements from April 2013 that their shareholders, employees and employee representative organisations will review.
The revamped Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) will also review employers’ reporting.
Time off work on workers’ compensation leave is included when calculating whether a worker has served out the minimum amount of time needed to claim unfair dismissal, Fair Work Australia has ruled. Labour hire firm WorkPac Pty Ltd claimed dump truck driver Michael Bambach could not claim unfair dismissal as he had only served in ...more
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