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.
About 1,000 workers will walk off the job for 48 hours from Monday at five BHP coal mines plus its Queensland export terminal in pursuit of a set of common claims, in line with the CFMEU (mining & energy division's) new bargaining strategy.
The FSU has called statewide stopwork meetings of its 1,300 Commonwealth Bank members in WA on Monday morning, as it begins a resurgent industrial campaign against the bank's pay and conditions offer.
A record US male-to-male sexual harassment settlement should serve as a warning to Australian HR managers to review their strategies for preventing harassment.
A majority of the 1,800 employees of automotive parts manufacturer Bosch Australia have today voted up an s170LJ agreement that differs significantly in key areas from the Campaign 2000 pattern deal.
Wage increases in June quarter private sector enterprise agreements have crept up by 0.2 percentage points to 3.8% a year per employee, according to the DEWRSB, but there are scant signs of accelerating wage pressures.
The AWU has complained to Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls over alleged apprehended bias by the State Supreme Court judge who hears urgent applications for injunctions during industrial disputes.
The AIG will seek to terminate the bargaining periods at manufacturing sites across Victoria, as it attempts to head off a statewide strike on October 29 in pursuit of the Campaign 2000 bargaining claim.
