Ford Australia will take 12-18 months to introduce the company's global initiative to offer employees a PC, colour inkjet printer and Internet access at home for just $US5 a month.
In one of the most important rulings since the introduction of the Workplace Relations Act in 1996, the Federal Court has found it might be unlawful for employers to make employees who decline individual contracts worse off than their colleagues who accept the arrangements.
Unions objecting to the registration of the "new BLF" have won the chance to view the membership records and other key documents of the nascent construction union.
Thousands of employees of the SA Department for Education, Training and Employment have won a 4% pay increase under an IRC arbitration ruling that breaks an impasse between the SA Govt and public sector unions.
The Industrial Relations Commission has refused to approve a labour supply company's Australian Workplace Agreements that would have left employees 30% worse off than the award.
A 155kg coal mine deputy has failed in a bid to win his job back, after the IRC accepted that weight-related health problems justified his sacking for being unable to work safely.
The IRC has approved two multi-employer agreements, after accepting that the individual employers under each agreement didn't have sufficient resources to manage their own industrial relations.
The Australian arm of internet giant America Online has provided its 54 employees - most of them located in a Sydney call centre - with two weeks paid parental leave under a new non-union enterprise agreement.
