Fairfax's bargaining dispute with its 1,200 editorial employees has intensified, with the company moving to lock them out indefinitely from 3.30 this afternoon in response to the MEAA campaign of rolling stoppages that began on Wednesday evening.
Transcript of IRC proceedings will be available faster from September 11, when the Commission and service provider Auscript begin a new electronic delivery strategy.
A full bench of the IRC has handed down its decision on the new incentive payment scheme that will end the tally system in the meat processing industry.
The IRC will this morning resume hearing the AiG's application to terminate the bargaining periods of about 70 companies involved in Campaign 2000 in a case that has widespread implications for all pattern bargaining campaigns.
A full bench of the Queensland IRC has accepted that the state's cane growers are under great financial pressure, but refused to exempt them from paying their employees this year's $15-a-week living wage increase.
The NSW IRC in Court Session has slammed Westpac subsidiary AGC for its "seriously flawed" investigation of a manager's alleged victimisation of a female employee and ordered the company to pay him more than $80,000.
More than 1,000 Fairfax editorial employees have begun a campaign of protected rolling stoppages, after talks with management earlier this week failed to resolve an enterprise bargaining deadlock.
