Victorian IR Minister Monica Gould has confirmed that the State Government will pay a 2% increase with a year's backdating to up to 10,000 employees who signed AWAs under the former State Government.
The LHMU in Victoria has taken advantage of the door left ajar in the IRC full bench Leave Case to have five days paid dispute resolution leave inserted into two awards.
The road transport industry is only now coming to grips with a Chief Industrial Magistrate Court decision which potentially leaves thousands of employers exposed to massive back-pay claims.
President of the national office of the AWU and secretary of the union's Port Kembla branch, Graham Roberts, is tipped as likely to replace Terry Muscat as next national secretary of the union.
A former chief executive is seeking $570,000 in damages in an important test of an employee's ability to run a claim against an employer for misleading and deceptive conduct under s52 of the Trade Practices Act.
Stevedoring productivity declined in the last quarter of 1999, with poor performances in Sydney and Melbourne dragging down the national average for container lifts to just 19 an hour, only marginally better than before the 1998 waterfront dispute.
Some 70,000 New South Wales public school and TAFE teachers have rejected the Government's pay offer and plan a campaign of industrial action, while their 10,000 Catholic school colleagues have accepted the Government's offer of a 16% pay increase, but without key tradeoffs sought in the public system.
The long-running bargaining dispute at ACI's Box Hill mould manufacturing plant spread nationally this week, with workers at the company's plants around the country staging a 24-hour support strike on Wednesday.
A five-member full bench of the High Court has reserved its decision on another Rio Tinto versus CFMEU (mining and energy division) case that deals with the crucial issue of the Federal Court's entitlement to interfere with IRC decisions but has little significance on the ground.
Queensland Workplace Agreements under the Beattie Government's IR regime have a far higher incidence of linkage to award wage increases than AWAs and WA Workplace Agreements, according to a new study.
