A Government-dominated federal parliamentary inquiry into work and family balance has recommended a new a new investigation of the effects of AWAs and Work Choices on working families and reviving the five-yearly IR survey that was conducted until 1995.
Labor leader Kevin Rudd has not yet announced which portfolios he will allocate to his new frontbench team, but Shadow IR Minister Stephen Smith looks likely to lose IR, with new Deputy Leader Julia Gillard the front-runner to replace him.
The AIRC has allowed an AMWU protected action secret ballot to go ahead despite employer arguments that the union had sought prohibited content and was therefore not genuinely trying to reach an agreement, and that the question it planned to put to employees wasn't specific enough.
AMWU members at Metlabs' non-destructive testing centres in four States are voting on strike action after an AIRC ruling that rejected concerns raised by the ABCC and clarified procedures for industrial action ballots.
The ABCC is prosecuting the CFMEU and its WA officials Joe McDonald and Michael Powell over two strikes at the Ravensthorpe Nickel mine in August last year.
Federal Government intervenes in union right of entry case; ACTU executive confirms new levy to step up campaign against Work Choices; Almost 20% of union members who voted for Coalition could switch over IR laws, says survey; and Baby boomers willing to work beyond retirement age.
Executive employment contracts containing detailed definitions of misbehavour justifying dismissal don't override the common law notion of misconduct, a Supreme Court Judge has ruled in the highly publicised case of former Primelife chief executive Ted Sent.
The AIRC today decided to flow on the AFPC's minimum wage increase to transitional employees and to proportionally increase allowances from the operative date of December 1 for all workers whose unions filed applications by last Friday.
