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.
The FSU has escalated its industrial campaign against the Commonwealth Bank, calling a national stopwork on Friday after today's stoppage in Western Australia.
Hardline abbatoir operator G&K O'Connor faces backpay claims from 35 workers who held out against signing AWAs, after a Federal Court full bench found they were being paid under the wrong award.
The Commonwealth Bank has revealed a radical plan to offer AWAs to its entire 22,000-strong award-covered workforce, ahead of the first stoppage tomorrow in the FSU's renewed industrial campaign.
Evidence linking exposure to inflight leaks of toxic fumes to a flight attendant's acute and chronic neuro-behavioural symptoms has opened the way for action against the carrier.
A full bench of the Federal Court has found the AMWU and one of its organisers guilty of coercion over attempts to force a small sub-contractor to sign a pattern union EA.
NSW's 15,000 childcare workers have won their first pay increase in three years, with the NSW IRC accepting the LHMU's application to raise rates by $41 a week - but with tradeoffs.
WR Minister Peter Reith has again hit out at both at the metal industry unions' Campaign 2000 and the ALP's IR policies, describing them as a "disaster".
After a quiet, snaggy period, Australia's IR industry has this year put a bit more effort into demonstrating why it has a sell-out annual sexism awards night named after it.