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Victorian nurses will tomorrow morning begin lifting bans that have closed 1,300 public hospital beds, after voting this afternoon in favour of the IRC arbitrating their bargaining dispute.

New Zealand's Employment Relations Act will come into law on October 2, after it was passed by Parliament this afternoon.

The NSW Commission and the Commission in Court Session are separate and distinct jurisdictions, according to a ruling by IRC Justice Roger Boland.

The IRC has given short-term approval to a further batch of substandard security industry AWAs.

The National Australia Bank, the next cab off the big bank bargaining rank after the CBA, has told the FSU it wants to negotiate a short-term agreement expiring in the middle of next year.

Some 450 workers at Esso's gas and oil production facilities in Gippsland and the Bass Strait are voting on a deal delivering a 13% increase over 30 months.

An IRC full bench has confirmed that the Workplace Relations Act's emphasis has fundamentally shifted toward encouraging competition between unions.

Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith has four pieces of IR legislation before Parliament this week, but all face defeat by the ALP and Democrats.

Joy Manufacturing will on Friday ask the IRC to terminate the enterprise agreement covering its Moss Vale site in NSW, with a weekend compulsory conference before the IRC failing to bring the parties any closer to resolving their four-month strike/lockout.

A waitress who suffered suicidal depression after she was sexually harassed by her employer has been awarded $35,000 compensation by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission.