The AWA offered to employees of failed carpet manufacturer Feltex by a prospective new employer erodes their conditions under their current Pre-Work Choices enterprise agreement and isn't an acceptable alternative, the AIRC has ruled.
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews has intervened to support an employer in an operational reasons dismissal appeal which was still before a full bench of the AIRC late this afternoon.
Older Australian men are reversing a 25-year trend of declining labour force participation, with their involvement rate increasing over the last five years, according to a Treasury paper.
ACTU secretary Greg Combet has called for a new national consensus to deliver Australia's long-term economic prosperity and social needs, in a wide-ranging speech in which he opposed nuclear energy and attacked the Telstra privatisation.
The Queenland Government discriminated against Aboriginal workers paid below-award wages at two Lutheran missions during the 1970s and 1980s, the Federal Court has ruled.
OWS warns of "huge fines" for underpayment of wages as another four employers prosecuted; Victorian public sector nurses to seek 7% annual pay rises in next EBA; and ACTU starts radio ads for Work Choices protest.
A pharmacy distribution company has been ordered to pay $15,000 for racial discrimination to a storeperson who was allegedly called a “lazy black Indian bitch”, and for its failure to properly deal with her complaint.
A construction industry contractor that lodged a non-union agreement with the OEA has been found by the AIRC to have been involved in a transmission of business with a company within its group bound to a union collective deal.
With both the ALP and ACTU committing to a majority-rules collective bargaining circuit breaker, a paper on statutory union recognition systems warns that those that focus on single-employer bargaining have in-built disadvantages for unions.
