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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.

A High Court ruling today has narrowed the scope for relief against IRC full bench decisions.

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.

The Democrats have rejected overtures from Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith to consider some limited legislative changes to discourage industry-wide bargaining and provide for cooling-off periods.

The Democrats have called on the Government to reduce delays in the IRC by replacing retiring commissioners.

In a setback to Campaign 2000 on the day of its first industry-wide protected strike, the IRC has warned that industry-wide industrial action in support of common claims and an absence of genuine bargaining could lead to the IRC terminating or suspending bargaining periods.

The security guard at Prime Minister John Howard's Sydney residence who was sacked for sleeping on the job has lost his unfair dismissal case in the IRC.

The federal IRC's sole Hobart-based Commissioner, Pat Leary, is to be the next president of the Tasmanian Industrial Commission.

Two sections of the ASU have paid almost $4 million to buy two floors of a largely union-owned eight-storey office building in the Sydney CBD.

The IRC has approved the Star City Casino enterprise agreement, which delivers 3,000 workers an 8% pay rise over 25 months and reintroduces weekend and night-time penalty rates.