The components supplier at the centre of the Campaign 2000 dispute that has led to stand-downs at Ford Australia is in the IRC this afternoon seeking to have the bargaining period covering its site terminated.
The Victorian County Court has denied a policeman's claim for stress compensation, finding that while he might have failed to return to his former role in the water police, he was still capable, as a "career member of the force", of other postings within the police service.
Federal award employees in Western Australia can now make unfair dismissal claims in the State IRC, following a landmark ruling by the WA Industrial Appeal Court.
Campaign 2000 is intensifying on the ground and in the courts with MTFU shop stewards today endorsing a statewide 24-hour stoppage for later this month, and Email preparing a legal challenge to the unions' pattern bargaining strategy.
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.