The post-Cameron succession plan for the AMWU national and Victorian leadership positions devised between the dominant National Left and the now disbanded Workers First is under threat.
Virgin Blue is introducing a new performance-based staff profit share scheme worth up to $30 million following an employee survey showing falling morale among its 4,000-strong workforce.
The OWS has begun an action in the Federal Court against Tristar, alleging it has made 26 current employees involuntarily redundant and seeking that they receive their severance pay entitlements.
A former Ingham's manager has had his unfair dismissal application thrown out by the AIRC because he was too highly paid and not employed under "award derived conditions".
The LHMU has won an order for a strike ballot despite an employer's objections that its bargaining notice was invalid because it incorrectly names other unions as parties to the proposed agreement.
Unions grapple with climate change, jobs; NSW Government intervenes in local government award bid; Ludwig says councils taking a risk in declaring themselves constitutional corporations; Abbott calls for investigation into Currawong sale; and Changed man wins job back.
The OEA is considering new methodologies for analysing AWAs but has no plans to resume collecting data on the loss of protected conditions under the individual contracts, a Senate Estimates committee has been told.
Women in non-managerial jobs under pre-Work Choices AWAs are receiving less than 80% of the earnings of their male counterparts, and the disparity is likely to grow under the new workplace laws, according to new academic research.
