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.
The CFMEU (mining & energy division) and South Blackwater Coal are back in the IRC today in an attempt to resolve the dispute over drug testing that led to a series of stand-downs involving about 250 workers at the company's central Queensland operations this week.
The settlement of the dispute between CUB and its production employees in Melbourne this week shows that Campaign 2000 is spreading beyond the metal industry.
The metal industry unions in Victoria today claimed a big scalp in Campaign 2000, with BHP agreeing to the break-out deal provisions plus more to settle the dispute at its OneSteel tube mill in Sunshine, Victoria.
The FSU has reduced its 13% over two years pay claim at the Commonwealth Bank in a bid to reach settlement, with an amended claim for a guaranteed increase of 8.5% over two years for most employees, plus performance pay averaging 2%.
