The licenced aircraft engineers' union will next week consider whether to take industrial action at Qantas maintenance facilities, if the company doesn't make a pay offer when the parties meet tomorrow.
Public sector nurses in the Northern Territory will next week begin voting on industrial action, including bans on overtime and non-nursing duties, after rejecting the government's 3% pay rise offer.
Woolworths has lost a bid for an interlocutory injunction to stop a former executive working for Myer after the NSW Supreme Court found there was insufficient evidence of direct competition between the supermarket and department store businesses.
The University of Western Australia has been ordered to pay $20,000 to an academic it suspended without pay over sexual harassment allegations because it failed to provide details of the complaints made against him.
Australian Airline Partners' bid to buy Qantas faces new conditions and delays after the private equity consortium agreed to a voluntary review by the Foreign Investment Review Board, while a new poll commissioned by unions shows four out of five people in key marginal seats are opposed to the takeover.
Queensland IR Minister John Mickel has today backed a call by an inquiry into Work Choices to set up a statutory authority modelled on the Victorian Workplace Rights Advocate.
