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.
NSW Premier Morris Iemma has this afternoon launched a new campaign by NSW unions to sign up "fair employers" to a guarantee that they won't cut wages, move their workers onto AWAs or make them independent contractors.
The ASU has began legal proceedings in the Victorian Magistrates Court against Qantas Holidays Limited, alleging the company's changes to part-time call centre employees' rosters are discriminatory and in breach of the award.
The maritime unions' long-running legal battle to have Australian IR law apply to foreign-flagged vessels and foreign crew operating on the Australian coast came to an end - for as long as Work Choices remains law - in the High Court this morning.
