AIRC President Justice Geoffrey Giudice has called for the Australian Industrial Registry and its Registrar to be brought under his control and for the appointment of more Melbourne-based members.
The Democrats' Senator Brian Greig has today reintroduced a private members bill that amends the Sex Discrimination Act to outlaw workplace discrimination against gay, lesbian, transgender and intersex people.
Some 12,000 former Ansett workers will receive 42% of their outstanding redundancy and super entitlements, under a deal put to the Federal Court today.
WA's Civil Service Association has today launched a radio campaign ahead of Thursday's strike, as part of a bargaining push for public sector workers, while the teachers' union is entering conciliation in the AIRC over a proposed new deal for state school employees.
First specialist workplace relations lawyers accredited in Victoria; ASU brochure part of renewed push for paid maternity leave; BGC withdraws bid to revoke AWU employee's entry permit; New website for AIRC's Richard Kirby Archive; New book on s106 of the NSW IR Act; and AWU welcomes purchase of Pan by Tabco.
The labour hire bargaining battle that led to a 226-day strike at Smorgon Steel's Laverton plant in Victoria is all but over, with TAD workers to vote on a deal struck earlier this week.
The assault on AMWU national secretary, Doug Cameron, become a political issue today, with the Shadow Minister for Workplace Relations, Craig Emerson, today accusing his counterpart Kevin Andrews of using it to justify his Cole-based IR bill.
The CFMEU (mining & energy division) is threatening to call a national coal strike over safety issues early next week unless the NSW Government intervenes to stop the WorkCover prosecutions arising from the Gretley disaster falling over on a technicality.
Ginnane and Bromberg take silk; Ministers council to consider national long service leave standards; $156,000 fine for ANZ over bank security failures; No irregularities in WA CEPU elections.
A NSW IRC (in Court Session) full bench majority has today found the Uniting Church Property Trust guilty of two charges of contempt of the Commission over demands and threats it made to two employees who had made s106 unfair contract applications.