Posted: November 18th, 2010 | Author: Edmund Tadros | Filed under: Business, My highlights | Tags: Fair Work Australia, Falun Gong, news.com.au, Qantas, Workplace | No Comments »
QANTAS has been ordered to reinstate a flight attendant banned from international duties over her practise of Falun Gong.
Sheridan Genrich, from Sydney’s Lane Cove, was demoted to a short-haul attendant after she was threatened by authorities during a 2008 stopover in Beijing and deported because of her spiritual beliefs
Read more about Qantas at news.com.au.
September 01, 2010: Qantas ‘demoted me for being Falun Gong’
A QANTAS employee says she lost her job as an international flight attendant after being deported from China for practising Falun Gong.
Counsel for Sheridan Genrich, of Lane Cove, told a workplace relations tribunal that Qantas demoted her after she was threatened by Chinese authorities during a stopover in Beijing.
She said that authorities singled her out from the crew, interrogated her over her beliefs and told her never to come back or there would be “serious consequences”.
Read more about Sheridan Genrich at news.com.au.
Posted: September 24th, 2010 | Author: Edmund Tadros | Filed under: Business, My highlights | Tags: AMP, Costco, Retail, Shopping Centre Council of Australia, Shopping centres, Westfield | No Comments »
COSTCO’s only Australian store made $8.9 million in sales and membership fees in its first two weeks of operation, as customers flocked to the warehouse discount outlet.
But Costco Wholesale Australia made an overall loss of $14 million in the year to August 31, 2009, due to the costs of establishing its second store and headquarters in New South Wales, its special purpose annual report revealed.
April 15, 2010: Green light for second Australian Costco
April 6, 2010: Shopping centre owners fight planned $60m Auburn Costco
Posted: September 16th, 2010 | Author: Edmund Tadros | Filed under: Business | Tags: Administration, Deloitte, Ed Hardy, news.com.au, Retail | No Comments »
A second creditors meeting voted to wind up Ed Hardy Operations on Monday after Deloitte was appointed voluntary administrators last month.
The move only relates to Ed Hardy’s Australian franchise and not the Ed Hardy group internationally.
September 14, 2010: Ed Hardy Operations put into liquidation
August 11, 2010: Ed Hardy Operations calls in administrators
Posted: September 10th, 2010 | Author: Edmund Tadros | Filed under: Business | Tags: Angus & Robertson, IKEA, King of Knives, news.com.au, Retail | No Comments »
IKEA stores have a “honey pot” effect on surrounding retailers, driving up sales with the furniture chain’s ability to draw large crowds of shoppers from long distances, a retail analyst says.
Deutsche Bank’s Alexi Baker-McLennan says retailers which benefit most are those with complementary home-focused offerings like appliances, storage, Manchester and kitchenware.
Posted: August 27th, 2010 | Author: Edmund Tadros | Filed under: Business, My highlights, Technology | Tags: Censorship, Clayton Utz, Firm Spy, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, news.com.au, Workplace | No Comments »
TWO of Australia’s most prestigious law firms have banned a workplace gossip website after it published a series of articles criticising management and mocking staff.
Both Mallesons Stephen Jaques and Clayton Utz have barred the Firm Spy site, branding it “irresponsible and inaccurate”.
Update May 2, 2011: Firm Spy reports that Mallesons Stephen Jaques have now allowed staff access to their site again. This was confirmed by Sue Ashe, head of communications at Mallesons Stephen Jaques.
