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Queensland mining company MIM will not renegotiate the deal voted down by workers last week, planning instead to hold a series of information meetings with employees to explain the document more fully before putting it up for ballot again within a fortnight.

The components supplier at the centre of the Campaign 2000 dispute that has led to stand-downs at Ford Australia is in the IRC this afternoon seeking to have the bargaining period covering its site terminated.

An unfair dismissal case against labour law firm RL Whyburn & Associates has been thrown out because it was vexatious.

A company that fought an unfair dismissal claim with false and fabricated evidence has had costs ordered against it by a full bench of the IRC.

The potential for dismissed senior executives to use Trade Practices Law to seek damages will again be tested in a key case before the Federal Court.

The NSW Court of Appeal has overturned a ruling that compensated an independent contractor for industrial deafness.

The Victorian County Court has denied a policeman's claim for stress compensation, finding that while he might have failed to return to his former role in the water police, he was still capable, as a "career member of the force", of other postings within the police service.

NSW unions are preparing to run a test case to require employers covered by State awards to deduct union fees from employees' wages.

Federal award employees in Western Australia can now make unfair dismissal claims in the State IRC, following a landmark ruling by the WA Industrial Appeal Court.

Campaign 2000 is intensifying on the ground and in the courts with MTFU shop stewards today endorsing a statewide 24-hour stoppage for later this month, and Email preparing a legal challenge to the unions' pattern bargaining strategy.